Cricoarytenoid muscle

Cricoarytenoid muscles are muscles that connect the cricoid cartilage and arytenoid cartilage.

Cricoarytenoid muscle
Muscles of larynx. Side view. Right lamina of thyroid cartilage removed.
Details
NerveRecurrent laryngeal nerve
Identifiers
LatinMusculus cricoarytenoideus
Anatomical terms of muscle

More specifically, it can refer to:

  • Posterior cricoarytenoid muscle
  • Lateral cricoarytenoid muscle
Muscles of the neck
Cervical
  • Platysma
  • Sternocleidomastoid
  • Longus capitis
  • Longus colli
  • Scalene
    • anterior
    • middle
    • posterior
  • Rectus capitis anterior muscle
  • Rectus capitis lateralis muscle
Suboccipital
  • Rectus capitis posterior
    • major
    • minor
  • Obliquus capitis
    • inferior
    • superior
Suprahyoid
  • Mylohyoid
  • Stylohyoid
  • Digastric
  • Geniohyoid
Infrahyoid
  • Thyrohyoid
  • Sternohyoid
  • Sternothyroid
  • Omohyoid
Pharynx
  • Pharyngeal constrictor
    • superior
    • middle
    • inferior
  • Stylopharyngeus
  • Salpingopharyngeus
Larynx
  • Cricothyroid
  • Cricoarytenoid
    • posterior
    • lateral
  • Arytenoid
    • oblique arytenoid
      • aryepiglottic
    • transverse arytenoid
  • Thyroarytenoid
    • vocal
    • thyroepiglottic
Trachea
  • Trachealis
Fasciae
  • Deep cervical fascia
    • Pretracheal fascia
    • Prevertebral fascia
    • Investing layer
  • Carotid sheath
  • Alar fascia
  • Palatine aponeurosis
  • Buccopharyngeal fascia
  • Pharyngobasilar fascia
  • Pharyngeal raphe


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