page_title: Corniculate cartilages
hierarchical_section_title: Corniculate cartilages
caption_attribution_description: Ligaments of the larynx. Posterior view.
context_page_description: The corniculate cartilages are two small conical nodules consisting of elastic cartilage, which articulate with the summits of the arytenoid cartilages and serve to prolong them posteriorly and medially.
  They are situated in the posterior parts of the aryepiglottic folds of mucous membrane, and are sometimes fused with the arytenoid cartilages.
context_section_description: The corniculate cartilages (cartilages of Santorini) are two small conical nodules consisting of elastic cartilage, which articulate with the summits of the arytenoid cartilages and serve to prolong them posteriorly and medially.
  They are situated in the posterior parts of the aryepiglottic folds of mucous membrane, and are sometimes fused with the arytenoid cartilages.
caption: Ligaments of the larynx. Posterior view. (Corniculate cartilage labeled at center right.)
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