Tags: Anatomical Structure, Muscle.

The lateral cricoarytenoid (also anterior cricoarytenoid) muscles extend from the lateral cricoid cartilage to the muscular process of the arytenoid cartilage. By rotating the arytenoid cartilages medially these muscles adduct the vocal cords and thereby close the rima glottidis protecting the airway.

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