(anatomy) 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.

(anatomy) A small quadrilateral muscle that arises from the thyroid cartilage, inserts into the thyrohyal of the hyoid bone, and functions to depress the hyoid bone and to elevate the thyroid cartilage.

(anatomy) A triangular muscle of the larynx that is attached to the cricoid and thyroid cartilages and is the principal tensor of the vocal cords.

(anatomy) Any of the six small voluntary muscles that pass between the eyeball and the orbit and control the movement and stabilization of the eyeball in relation to the orbit.

plural of omohyoid muscle

A rectus, any of several straight muscles in the body.

plural of pectoral muscle

plural of arytenoid muscle

A stretch receptor within the body of a skeletal muscle that detects changes in the length of the muscle.

A muscle of the eye, serving to dilate the iris.