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  2. Thyroid cartilage - Wikipedia

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    The inferior horn is short and thick; it is directed downward, with a slight inclination forward and medialward, and presents, on the medial side of its tip, a small oval articular facet for articulation with the side of the cricoid cartilage. The entire superior edge of the thyroid cartilage is attached to the hyoid bone by the thyrohyoid ...

  3. Thyroarytenoid muscle - Wikipedia

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    Its main use is to draw the arytenoid cartilages forward toward the thyroid, thus relaxing and shortening the vocal folds. But, owing to the connection of the deeper portion with the vocal fold, this part, if acting separately, is supposed to modify its elasticity and tension, while the lateral portion rotates the arytenoid cartilage inward ...

  4. Cricothyroid muscle - Wikipedia

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    [3] [5] They draw up the arch of the cricoid cartilage and tilt back the upper border of the cricoid cartilage lamina. [3] [5] The distance between the vocal processes and the angle of the thyroid is increased, elongating [3] and thus tensing the vocal folds, [1] thereby resulting in higher pitch phonation. [3]

  5. Thyroid - Wikipedia

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    The isthmus extends from the second to third rings of the trachea, with the uppermost part of the lobes extending to the thyroid cartilage and the lowermost around the fourth to sixth tracheal rings. [6] The infrahyoid muscles lie in front of the gland and the sternocleidomastoid muscle to the side. [7]

  6. Thyrohyoid muscle - Wikipedia

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    Above, it attaches onto the greater cornu of the hyoid bone; below, it attaches onto the oblique line of the thyroid cartilage. It is innervated by fibres derived from the cervical spinal nerve 1 that run with the hypoglossal nerve (CN XII) to reach this muscle. The thyrohyoid muscle depresses the hyoid bone and elevates the larynx during ...

  7. Thyrohyoid membrane - Wikipedia

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    The thyrohyoid membrane is attached below to the upper border of the thyroid cartilage and to the front of its superior cornu, and above to the upper margin of the posterior surface of the body and greater cornu of the hyoid bone. [1] It passes behind the posterior surface of the body of the hyoid.

  8. Cricoarytenoid muscle - Wikipedia

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    Side view. Right lamina of thyroid cartilage removed. Details; Nerve: ... Cricoarytenoid muscles are muscles that connect the cricoid cartilage and arytenoid cartilage.

  9. Posterior cricoarytenoid muscle - Wikipedia

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    Posterior surface of muscular process of the arytenoid cartilage: Nerve: Recurrent laryngeal nerve branch of the vagus nerve (CN X) Actions: Abducts and laterally rotates arytenoid cartilage, pulling vocal ligaments away from the midline and forward and so opening rima glottidis: Antagonist: Lateral cricoarytenoid muscle: Identifiers; Latin