aryepiglottic muscle

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A band of muscular fibers of the oblique arytenoid muscle that extends from the summit of the arytenoid cartilage to the side of the epiglottis and whose action constricts the laryngeal aperture.

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Security guards have also been posted to add some muscle (but this has done little to deter vandals in past years).
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The bell tower bellows loudly when a little muscle power is put into it.
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When it comes to tangible gifts, the sharing economy really starts to flex its holiday disrupting muscle.
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I can see the implant in there, and see where the muscle is snatching that implant up.
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The strength of the lion is tremendous, owing to the immense mass of muscle around its jaws, shoulders, and forearms.
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The man was accustomed to the French of Englishmen, and withdrew without moving a muscle of his face.
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He was a man of gigantic muscle, and seizing the arm of Louis, called aloud to bar the egress.
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In this country an unexplained marked eosinophilia warrants examination of a portion of muscle for Trichina spiralis (p. 255).
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The second pair show that the transverse processes, from the first to the third, are those into which the muscle is inserted.
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