Thus, one fold, the free edge of which is formed of a band of elastic fibers, passes horizontally outwards from each side towards the middle line, at the level of the base of the arytenoid cartilages.
Other muscles are connected with the arytenoid cartilages which serve to seperate the vocal cords and to widely open the glottis.
Diagramatic Horizontal Section of Larynx to show the Direction of Pull of the Posterior Crico-Arytenoid Muscles, which abduct the Vocal Cords.
When in their natural position the arytenoid cartilages resemble somewhat the mouth of a pitcher, hence their name.
While, namely, the arytenoid cartilages seem to be wholly closed, one sees just before the beginning of the tone the vocal ligaments standing apart in a square-shaped form, and only closing together with the tone.
But the instant the vocal ligaments are deprived of the assistance of the arytenoid cartilages, they relax and appear longer than at the last tone produced by that aid.
Its lips comprehend in their length the anterior apophyses of the arytenoidcartilages and the vocal chords; but, I repeat it, there remains no triangular space.
When, in using the laryngoscope upon myself, I slowly sang the ascending scale, this movement of the vocal chords and arytenoid cartilages was repeated at every tone.
From its side at the back part project two rounded surfaces, which give attachment to the arytenoid cartilages.
Within the larynx, and stretched across it from the thyroid cartilage in front to the arytenoid cartilages behind, are placed the two sets of folds, called the vocal cords.
It is utterly idle to tell the vocal student that as the pitch of the voice rises the arytenoid cartilages rotate, bringing their forward surfaces together, and so shortening the effective length of the vocal cords.
This is apparently accomplished by the rotation of the arytenoid cartilages; but the specific muscular contractions concerned in the rotation of the arytenoids have not been located.
The inner edges of the thyro-arytenoid muscles form the vocal cords.
The rear ends are attached to the arytenoid cartilages.
Lucia cannot attend to the movements of her arytenoid cartilages while pouring out the trills and runs of her Mad Scene.
When the ends are brought together by rotation of these arytenoid cartilages, the medial surfaces touch.
To cause the summits of the arytenoid cartilages, for example, to incline toward each other is entirely beyond the direct power of the singer.
Dyspnoea and hoarseness occasionally occur where the only abnormal condition is a marked oedema at the entrance of the larynx, particularly of the posterior wall near the arytenoid cartilages and the attachment of the vocal cords.
Situated under the arytenoid cartilage of the larynx.
This is narrow in front and high behind, where, within the thyroid, it is surmounted by the two arytenoid cartilages, from which the vocal cords pass forward to be attached together to the front of the thyroid.
Of or pertaining to both the thyroid and arytenoid cartilages of the larynx.
The Vocal Cords* are formed by two narrow strips of tissue which, connecting with the thyroid cartilage in front and the arytenoid cartilages behind, lie in folds of the mucous membrane.
A special set of muscles draws the arytenoid cartilages toward each other, thereby bringing their edges very near and parallel to each other in the passage.
When sound is not being produced, the glottis is open and has a triangular form, due to the spreading apart of the arytenoid cartilages and the attached cords.
The largest represents the thyroid cartilage, the next in size the cricoid, and the two smallest the arytenoid cartilages.
Each arytenoid is movable on the cricoid and is connected with one end of a vocal cord.
At the summit of the cricoid cartilage, on each side, is a small piece of triangular shape, called the arytenoid cartilage.
They are arranged in the form of an L, whose vertical branch goes along the arytenoid cartilages (the pyramids), the horizontal branch following the direction of the vocal cords.
Extending backwards and downwards from the lateral margins of the epiglottis are the two ary-epiglottic folds which reach the arytenoid cartilages posteriorly.
The upper aperture of the larynx is bounded by the epiglottis in front, the ary-epiglottic folds laterally, and the inter-arytenoid fold behind.
In the interval between the two arytenoid cartilages is the inter-arytenoid fold of mucous membrane, which forms the upper margin of the posterior wall of the larynx.
Laryngeal cough of a croupy or barking character may be present, and is usually associated with a lesion of the posterior wall or inter-arytenoid fold.
Their termination, at the base of the arytenoid cartilages.
The muscles of the arytenoid cartilages are then brought to a proper relation for action, by which a tension of the vocal cords is produced, that favors clear and harmonious enunciation.
They are about two lines in width, and pass from the anterior angle of the thyroid cartilage, to the two arytenoid cartilages.
The cricoid and thyroid cartilages give form and stability to the larynx; the arytenoid cartilages, by their movement, vary the width of the glottis.
The junction of the cricoid and the arytenoid cartilages.
A sliding punch forceps is used to remove all the tissue in the larynx out to the perichondrium, but care should be taken in cicatricial cases to avoid removing any part of either arytenoid cartilage.
The laryngeal lesion may be due to cordal immobility from either paralysis or inflammatory arytenoid fixation, in the absence of edema.
He must know also the right from the left arytenoid when only one is seen in order to know whether to move the lip of the laryngoscope to the right or the left for exposure of the interior of the larynx.
We are concerned endoscopically with four of its cartilaginous structures: the epiglottis, the two arytenoid cartilages, and the cricoid cartilage.
Fixation of the crico-arytenoid joints with an approximation of the cords may require evisceration of the larynx.
Posterior to this the aryepiglottic folds ending posteriorly in the arytenoid eminences are seen in apposition.
If the beginner cannot start the tube into the pyriform sinus in an adult, it is a good plan to expose the arytenoid eminence with the laryngoscope and then to insert the 7 mm.
A lifting motion imparted to the tip of the esophagoscope by the left thumb will bring the rounded right arytenoid eminence into view (A, Fig.
If the arytenoid motility has been uninjured the repeated pulls on the scar tissue may draw out adventitious bands and develop a loud, useful, though perhaps rough and inflexible voice.
Injury to the crico-arytenoid joint may simulate recurrent paralysis.
Usually little more is seen than the two rounded arytenoid masses, and, anterior to them, the ventricular bands in more or less close apposition hiding the cords (Fig.
A rough, inflexible voice is ultimately obtained after this operation, especially if the arytenoid cartilage is unharmed.
The normal arytenoiddrew the normal cord over, approximately to the edge of the cicatricial tissue of the operated side.
Defn: Situated under thearytenoid cartilage of the larynx.
Defn: Of or pertaining to both the thyroid and arytenoid cartilages of the larynx.
The cartilages of the ear and the arytenoid cartilages are sometimes the seat of gouty deposits.
In a few instances paralysis of the palate occurs as a sequel of tonsillitis, and in exceptional cases the paralysis may also affect the arytenoid muscles of the larynx, and even the accommodator muscles of the eyes.
Sometimes laryngoscopic inspection at this early stage of the disease will reveal vivid redness of the mucous membrane in the neighborhood of the crico-arytenoid articulations.
The fibres also vary in length; some are inserted into the extending projections, called processes of the arytenoid cartilages, and some extend further back and are inserted into the body of the cartilages.
Errors and Inconsistencies: to justify the teaching of vocal music in schools [is schools] inserted posteriorly into the arytenoid cartilages [aryteniod] forth.
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