单词 | arytenoid |
释义 | arytenoid, a. and n. Phys.|ærɪˈtiːnɔɪd| Also arytænoid. [ad. mod.L. arytænoīdes, ad. Gr. ἀρυταινο-ειδής, f. ἀρύταινα funnel, pitcher + -ειδής -shaped.] A. adj. Funnel-shaped, pitcher-shaped: applied spec. to two pyramidal cartilages of the larynx which regulate the action of the vocal chords, and to parts connected with them.
1727–51Chambers Cycl., The arytænoideus [muscle] has its head in one arytænoid cartilage, and its tail in the other. 1836Todd Cycl. Anat. & Phys. I. 345/2 The arytenoid bones. 1872Huxley Phys. vii. 180 Perched side by side upon the upper edge of the back part of the cricoid cartilage are..the arytenoid cartilages. B. n. [sc. cartilage, muscle.]
[1691Ray Creation ii. (1701) 339 The cartilages called Arytenoides.] 1849–52Todd Cycl. Anat. & Phys. IV. 1493/2 Arytenoids locked to each other..by a cartilage. |

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