thyroarytenoid muscle (English, noun)
expansion: thyroarytenoid muscle (plural thyroarytenoid muscles)
Senses:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A broad, thin muscle that arises especially from the thyroid cartilage, inserts into the arytenoid cartilage, and functions to relax and shorten the vocal cords by drawing the arytenoid cartilage forward and to narrow the rima glottidis by rotating the arytenoid cartilage inward causing the vocal cords to approach each other.
Forms:
form: thyroarytenoid muscles
tags: plural
form: thyroarytenoid
tags: alternative
form: thyroarytenoideus
tags: alternative