Cricoarytenoid muscle

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Cricoarytenoid muscle

Muscles of larynx. Side view. Right lamina of thyroid cartilage removed.
Gray's	p.1082
Origin
Insertion
Artery
Nerve	recurrent laryngeal nerve
Actions

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

More specifically, it can refer to:

Cervical

C1–C6 (anterior): Prevertebral muscles: longus (capitis, colli)

C1: rectus capitis posterior (major, minor) · obliquus capitis (inferior, superior)

C1–C6 (anterior): Prevertebral muscles: rectus capitis (anterior, lateralis)

C1 (deep): geniohyoid

pharyngeal constrictor (superior, middle, inferior) · longitudinal (stylopharyngeus, salpingopharyngeus)

Larynx

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