▪ I. glottic, a.1
(ˈglɒtɪk)
[ad. Gr. γλωττικός, f. γλῶττα, Attic form of γλῶσσα tongue.]
Of or pertaining to language or ‘tongues’; linguistic.
| 1802 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XIII. 10 That vanquisher of glottic difficulties, Joshua Sylvester. |
So † ˈglottical a., concerned with the study of languages.
| 1660 Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 132 Dr. Petty..had a main design to erect a Glottical College. |
▪ II. glottic, a.2
(ˈglɒtɪk)
[f. glott-is + -ic.]
Of or pertaining to the glottis.
| 1839–47 Todd Cycl. Anat. III. 573 The usual operation for urgent glottic dyspnœa. 1885 Syd. Soc. Lex., Glottic souffle, the sound heard through the stethoscope over the neck produced by the passage of the air through the glottis in respiration. 1896 Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 746 Hoarseness is the commonest form [of paraphonia] being a lesion of the simple glottic sound and not of the articulated voice. |