camaxitecuilli.

Headword: 
camaxitecuilli.
Principal English Translation: 

the vocal chords (see Sahagún)

Attestations from sources in English: 

camaxitecuilli; tomaxitecuil, tilaoac, tzotzolti9c, iamãqui, paltic, xipeoa, tomoni, iamania = vocal cords, our vocal cords, thick, narrow, soft, moist, they are bared, they swell, they become soft (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 108.

themes: 
Anatomy