Cricoarytenoid muscle

Cricoarytenoid muscle
Muscles of larynx. Side view. Right lamina of thyroid cartilage removed.
Details
Nerve	Recurrent laryngeal nerve
Identifiers
Latin	musculus cricoarytenoideus
Anatomical terms of muscle [ edit on Wikidata]

Cricoarytenoid muscles are muscles that connect the cricoid cartilage and arytenoid cartilage. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

More specifically, it can refer to:

• Posterior cricoarytenoid muscle
• Lateral cricoarytenoid muscle

References

1. Gray, Henry (1918). Anatomy of the Human Body (Gray's Anatomy) (20th ed.). Lea & Febiger. pp. 1081–1082.
2. Sellars, Ioné; Sellars, Sean (1983). "Cricoarytenoid joint structure and function". The Journal of Laryngology & Otology. 97 (11): 1027–1034. doi:10.1017/S002221510009592X. PMID   6644161.
3. Pretterklieber, M. L. (2003). "Functional Anatomy of the Human Intrinsic Laryngeal Muscles". European Surgery. 35 (5): 250–258. doi:10.1007/s10353-003-0021-z.