a. and sb. Phys. Also arytænoid. [ad. mod.L. arytænoīdes, ad. Gr. ἀρυταινο-ειδής, f. ἀρύταινα funnel, pitcher + -ειδής -shaped.]
A. adj. Funnel-shaped, pitcher-shaped: applied spec. to two pyramidal cartilages of the larynx which regulate the action of the vocal chords, and to parts connected with them.
1727–51. Chambers, Cycl., The arytænoideus [muscle] has its head in one arytænoid cartilage, and its tail in the other.
1836. Todd, Cycl. Anat. & Phys., I. 345/2. The arytenoid bones.
1872. Huxley, Phys., vii. 180. Perched side by side upon the upper edge of the back part of the cricoid cartilage are … the arytenoid cartilages.
B. sb. [sc. cartilage, muscle.]
[1691. Ray, Creation, II. (1701), 339. The cartilages called Arytenoides.]
1849–52. Todd, Cycl. Anat. & Phys., IV. 1493/2. Arytenoids locked to each other … by a cartilage.
