Skeletal system
Thyroid cartilage
Cartilago thyreoidea
- System
- Skeletal system
- Regions
- Neck, Trunk
- Part of
- Laryngeal cartilages
DescriptionUnreviewed
The thyroid cartilage is the largest of the nine cartilages that make up the laryngeal skeleton, the cartilage structure in and around the trachea that contains the larynx.
It does not completely encircle the larynx (only the cricoid cartilage encircles it).
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Muscle attachments
Muscles that insert here
Landmarks
Names
- Latin
- Cartilago thyreoidea
- English
- Thyroid cartilage
- French
- Cartilage thyroïde
- Spanish
- Cartílago tiroideo
- Portuguese
- Cartilagem da tireoide