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cuneiform cartilage; Morgagni cartilage; Wrisberg cartilage; Morgagni tubercle
A small nonarticulating rod of elastic cartilage in the aryepiglottic fold anterolateral & superior to the corniculate cartilage, the cuneiforms do not directly attach to other cartilages.
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corniculate cartilage; Santorini cartilage; supra-arytenoid cartilage
cuneiform bone (wedge bone)
General
larynx
cartilage
References
- Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.
- Clinically Oriented Anatomy, 4th edition, KL Moore &
AF Dalley (eds), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia,
PA 1999.
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