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Thyroarytenoid muscle
Meaning
Noun
●
In Muscles:
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.
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Synonyms
Thyroarytenoid
Thyroarytenoideus
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