Word Meanings - THYROARYTENOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to both the thyroid and arytenoid cartilages of the larynx.

Related words: (words related to THYROARYTENOID)

• 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
• ARYTENOID
  Ladle-shaped; -- applied to two small cartilages of the larynx, and also to the glands, muscles, etc., connected with them. The cartilages are attached to the cricoid cartilage and connected with the vocal cords. lit. all so; hence, quite so, quite
• LARYNX
  The expanded upper end of the windpipe or trachea, connected with the hyoid bone or cartilage. It contains the vocal cords, which produce the voice by their vibrations, when they are stretched and a current of air passes between them. The larynx
• SUBARYTENOID
  Situated under the arytenoid cartilage of the larynx.
• CRICOTHYROID
  Of or pertaining both to the cricoid and the thyroid cartilages.
• STERNOTHYROID
  Of or pertaining to the sternum and the thyroid cartilage.
• THYROARYTENOID
  Of or pertaining to both the thyroid and arytenoid cartilages of the larynx.
• 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