1.   The false vocal cord theory is the most obvious and the simplest.

2.   Another treatment involves cutting the recurrent laryngeal nerve before it reaches the vocal cord.

3.   But in February, he developed a tumor on a vocal cord.

4.   Doctors said that Mrs. Dwyer cut her own throat twice, partly severing her windpipe, damaging vocal cord nerves and cutting into a vein and the thyroid.

5.   Doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., say the condition is the result of a viral infection that weakened a vocal cord.

6.   He had recently suffered a small stroke and undergone surgery for a cancerous tumor on a vocal cord.

7.   His combat in Normandy ended when he suffered his seventh and final wound, a bullet in the neck that struck a vocal cord.

8.   It paralyzed her left vocal cord, she lost hearing in her left ear, and she risked permanent paralysis on her left side.

9.   Medically, the explanation is that an ulcer on one of the vocal cords finally cleared up and the working vocal cord picked up the slack.

10.   Surgery to strengthen the vocal cord is expected within two weeks.