Corniculate cartilages

Corniculate cartilages
Corniculate cartilages
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Ligaments of the larynx. Posterior view. (Corniculate cartilage labeled at center right.)
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The entrance to the larynx, viewed from behind. (Corniculate cartilage labeled at bottom right.)
Latin cartilagines corniculata
Gray's subject #236 1075

The corniculate cartilages (cartilages of Santorini) are two small conical nodules consisting of yellow elastic cartilage, which articulate with the summits of the arytenoid cartilages and serve to prolong them posteriorly and medially.

They are situated in the posterior parts of the aryepiglottic folds of mucous membrane, and are sometimes fused with the arytenoid cartilages.

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Eponym

It is named for Giovanni Domenico Santorini.[1][2]

Additional images

  • The cartilages of the larynx. Posterior view.

  • Laryngoscopic view of interior of larynx.

  • Muscles of larynx. Posterior view.

  • Muscles of larynx. Side view. Right lamina of thyroid cartilage removed.

References

  1. ^ synd/3088 at Who Named It?
  2. ^ G. D. Santorini. Observationes anatomicae. Venetiis, apus J. B. Recurti, 1724; Leiden, 1939.

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