Aryepiglottic fold

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Aryepiglottic fold
The entrance to the larynx, viewed from behind. (Aryepiglottic fold labeled at center right.)
Laryngoscopic view of interior of larynx. (Aryepiglottic fold labeled at center right.)
Latin plica aryepiglottica
Gray's subject #236 1079
Dorlands/Elsevier p_24/12648893

The entrance of the larynx is a triangular opening, wide in front, narrow behind, and sloping obliquely downward and backward. It is bounded, in front, by the epiglottis; behind, by the apices of the arytenoid cartilages, the corniculate cartilages, and the interarytenoid notch; and on either side, by a fold of mucous membrane, enclosing ligamentous and muscular fibers, stretched between the side of the epiglottis and the apex of the arytenoid cartilage; this is the aryepiglottic fold, on the posterior part of the margin of which the cuneiform cartilage forms a more or less distinct whitish prominence, the cuneiform tubercle.

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