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cuneiform cartilage

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Main Entry: cuneiform cartilage
Function: noun
: either of a pair of rods of yellow elastic cartilage of which each lies on one side of the larynx in an aryepiglotticfold just below the arytenoid cartilage called also cartilage of Wrisberg
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cuneiform cartilage n.
A small nonarticulating rod of elastic cartilage in the aryepiglottic fold above the corniculate cartilage.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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