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thyroarytenoid muscles

thyroarytenoid muscles is the plural of thyroarytenoid muscle.

Meaning of thyroarytenoid muscle

Noun

thyroarytenoid muscle (plural thyroarytenoid muscles)

  1. 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.

Questions about thyroarytenoid muscles

What is thyroarytenoid muscles the plural of?
Thyroarytenoid muscles is the plural of thyroarytenoid muscle.

Words near thyroarytenoid muscles in the dictionary

  1. thyristor
  2. thyristors
  3. thyro-
  4. thyroarytenoid
  5. thyroarytenoid muscle
  6. thyroarytenoid muscles
  7. thyroarytenoidei
  8. thyroarytenoideus
  9. thyroarytenoids
  10. thyroblast
  11. thyroblasts

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