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Why dose a throat infection cause your voice to produce lower pitched sounds biology

Question 3. Why dose a throat infection cause your voice to produce lower pitched-example-1
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With a cold comes inflammation of the structures around the vocal cords. With the inflammation comes swelling of those structures. Thicker vocal cords vibrate more slowly and give a lower pitch.

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