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oblique arytenoid muscle
Origin: muscular process of arytenoid cartilage
Insertion:
-> summit of arytenoid cartilage of opposite side, continuing as the aryepiglottic muscle in the aryepiglottic fold to the epiglottis
Action: narrows the interarytenoid portion of the rima glottidis
Innervation: recurrent laryngeal nerve
Related
rima glottidis
General
skeletal muscle (voluntary muscle)
References
Stedman's Medical Dictionary 26th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1995