Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In anatomy, pertaining to or connected with the cricoid and arytenoid cartilages: said of a muscle or ligament.
- noun Same as
crico-arytenoideus .
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Examples
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A sufficiently wide removal was accomplished without removing any part of the esophageal wall below the level of the crico-arytenoid joint.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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-- Fixation of the crico-arytenoid joints with an approximation of the cords may require evisceration of the larynx.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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Injury to the crico-arytenoid joint may simulate recurrent paralysis.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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The muscles can always be recognized by their red color, but it is to be remembered that those on the inner surface of the larynx, such as the crico-arytenoid, are covered with mucous membrane, which after death is very pale.
Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) Wesley Mills 1881
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_crico-arytenoid [= e] us posticus_, whose attachments are exactly as indicated by the names -- viz., to the posterior part of the two cartilages named.
Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) Wesley Mills 1881
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