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thyroarytenoid muscle

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
thy-roary-tenoid -mus-cle
IPA
34
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
5
Syllables
15
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Inflected Forms

thyroarytenoid muscles (plural) thyroarytenoid (alternative) thyroarytenoideus (alternative)

Questions

What does thyroarytenoid muscle mean?
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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