Arytenoid

(ar-z/-te-noid)\_apvraiva, a pitcher; el6oQ, likene ]. Resembling the mouth of a pitcher. A. Cartilages, two cartilages of the larynx regulating, by the means of the attached muscles, the tension of the vocal bands. A. Glands, muciparous glands found in large numbers along the posterior margin of the arytenoepiglottic fold in front of the arytenoid cartilages. A. Muscle, a muscle arising from the posterior surface of one arytenoid cartilage and inserted into the corresponding parts of the other. It is composed of three planes of fibers, two oblique and one transverse. It draws the arytenoid cartilages together. 92