Thyroepiglottic muscle

Thyroepiglottic muscle
Muscles of the larynx, seen from above.
Details
Nerve	recurrent laryngeal nerve
Identifiers
Latin	Pars thyreoepiglottica musculi thyreoarytaenoidei
TA	A06.2.08.009
FMA	46594
*Anatomical terms of muscle* [edit on Wikidata]

A considerable number of the fibers of the thyroarytenoid muscle are prolonged into the aryepiglottic fold, where some of them become lost, while others continue to the margin of the epiglottis. They have received a distinctive name, thyroepiglotticus or thyroepiglottic muscle, and are sometimes described as a separate muscle. This muscle's function is to widen the laryngeal inlet.

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

External links

http://accweb.itr.maryville.edu/myu/Bio301Summer/301on9.html

Muscles of the neck

Cervical	Platysma Sternocleidomastoid Longus capitis Longus colli Scalene anterior middle posterior Rectus capitis anterior muscle Rectus capitis lateralis muscle

Suboccipital	Rectus capitis posterior major minor Obliquus capitis inferior superior

Suprahyoid	Mylohyoid Stylohyoid Digastric Geniohyoid

Infrahyoid	Thyrohyoid Sternohyoid Sternothyroid Omohyoid

Pharynx	Pharyngeal constrictor superior middle inferior Stylopharyngeus Salpingopharyngeus

Larynx	Cricothyroid Cricoarytenoid posterior lateral Arytenoid oblique arytenoid aryepiglottic transverse arytenoid Thyroarytenoid vocal thyroepiglottic

Trachea	Trachealis

Fasciae	Deep cervical fascia Pretracheal fascia Prevertebral fascia Investing layer Carotid sheath Alar fascia Palatine aponeurosis Buccopharyngeal fascia Pharyngobasilar fascia Pharyngeal raphe

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