THYROID CARTILAGE
- Thyroid cartilage
- Y shaped in section
- Parts
- Position
- Oblique relative to midline
- Right and left lamina
- Quadrilateral
- Each lamina
- Anterior border
- Lower parts
- Fuse to form laryngeal prominence
- Adams apple
- Upper parts.
- Do not meet
- Thyroid notch
- Posterior border
- Free
- Prolonged upward and downward
- Cornua or horns
- Superior cornua
- Connected to greater cornua of hyoid bone
- By thyrohyoid ligament
- Inferior cornua
- Articulates with cricoid cartilage
- Cricothyroid joint
- Inferior border
- In median plane connected to cricoid cartilage
- Conus elasticus
- Surfaces
- Outer surface
- Oblique line
- Thyrohyoid , sternothyroid , thyrophsryngeus
- Attachments
- Inferior cornua and lower border
- Triangular cricothyroid
- Posterior border
- Connecting superior and inferior cornua
- Palatopharyngeus
- Salpingopharyngeus
- Stylopharyngeus
- Inner aspect
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