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cricoarytenoid muscles

cricoarytenoid muscles is the plural of cricoarytenoid muscle.

Meaning of cricoarytenoid muscle

Noun

cricoarytenoid muscle (plural cricoarytenoid muscles)

  1. Either of a pair of muscles which originate from the cricoid and insert on to the arytenoid cartilage, and serve to adduct and abduct the vocal folds.

Questions about cricoarytenoid muscles

What is cricoarytenoid muscles the plural of?
Cricoarytenoid muscles is the plural of cricoarytenoid muscle.

Words near cricoarytenoid muscles in the dictionary

  1. crico-
  2. crico-arytænoid
  3. crico-arytænoids
  4. cricoarytenoid
  5. cricoarytenoid muscle
  6. cricoarytenoid muscles
  7. cricoarytenoidei
  8. cricoarytenoideus
  9. cricoarytenoids
  10. cricoconarid
  11. cricoesophageal

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