thyroarytenoid Definition

a broad thin muscle that arises especially from the thyroid cartilage, inserts into the arytenoid cartilage, and functions to relax and shorten the vocal cords by drawing the arytenoid cartilage forward and to narrow the rima glottidis by rotating the arytenoid cartilage inward causing the vocal cords to approach each other —called also thyroarytenoid muscle, thyroarytenoideus

thyroarytenoid

vocal ligament

the band of yellow elastic tissue contained in each true vocal cord and stretching between the thyroid and arytenoid cartilages —called also inferior thyroarytenoid ligament