Corniculate cartilages
Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The corniculate cartilages (cartilages of Santorini) are two small conical nodules in the larynx, consisting of elastic cartilage, which articulate with the summits of the arytenoid cartilages and serve to prolong them posteriorly and medially.
They are situated in the posterior parts of the aryepiglottic folds of mucous membrane, and are sometimes fused with the arytenoid cartilages.
Eponym
It is named by Giovanni Domenico Santorini.[1][2] The word "corniculate" has the Latin root "cornu", meaning "horn". This refers to the appearance of the corniculate cartilages as horn-like projections.[3]
Additional images
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The cartilages of the larynx. Posterior view.
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Laryngoscopic view of interior of larynx.
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Muscles of larynx. Posterior view.
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Muscles of larynx. Side view. Right lamina of thyroid cartilage removed.
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Corniculate cartilages
References
Public domain This article incorporates text in the public domain from Template:Wikidatathe 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)
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- ↑ synd/3088 at Whonamedit?
- ↑ G. D. Santorini. Observationes anatomicae. Venetiis, apus J. B. Recurti, 1724; Leiden, 1939.
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External links
- Atlas image: rsa3p8 at the University of Michigan Health System
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