Word Meanings - CRICOTHYROID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining both to the cricoid and the thyroid cartilages.

THYROIDEAL
Thyroid.
THYROID
Of or pertaining to the thyroid body, thyroid cartilage, or thyroid artery; thyroideal. Thyroid cartilage. See under Larynx. -- Thyroid body, or Thyroid gland , a glandlike but ductless body, or pair of bodies, of unknown function, in the floor
PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
CRICOID
Resembling a ring; -- said esp. of the cartilage at the larynx, and the adjoining parts.
CRICOTHYROID
Of or pertaining both to the cricoid and the thyroid cartilages.
STERNOTHYROID
Of or pertaining to the sternum and the thyroid cartilage.
APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach