. Human physiology (Volume 1) . s bounded anteriorlyby the thyroid cartilage ; posteriorly, by a muscle extending fromone arytenoid cartilage to the other — the arytenoideus; and,laterally, by two folds, formed of the thyro-arytenoid ligament, pass-ing from the anterior part of the arytenoid cartilage to the poste-rior part of the thyroid, and of a muscle of the same name. Thesefolds are called the inferior ligaments or lips of the glottis, or VOICE — ANATOMY OF THE VOCAL APPARATUS. 417 the inferior vocal are represented byT V, in Fig. 106, and byB B, Fig. 107. Betweenthese two clef
. Human physiology (Volume 1) . s bounded anteriorlyby the thyroid cartilage ; posteriorly, by a muscle extending fromone arytenoid cartilage to the other — the arytenoideus; and,laterally, by two folds, formed of the thyro-arytenoid ligament, pass-ing from the anterior part of the arytenoid cartilage to the poste-rior part of the thyroid, and of a muscle of the same name. Thesefolds are called the inferior ligaments or lips of the glottis, or VOICE — ANATOMY OF THE VOCAL APPARATUS. 417 the inferior vocal are represented byT V, in Fig. 106, and byB B, Fig. 107. Betweenthese two clefts are the sinu-ses ox ventricles of the larynx,V V,Fig. 107. The inferior,exterior and superior sidesof these are formed by thethyro-arytenoid muscle. Bymeans of these ligaments —superior and inferior — thelips of the superior and infe-rior apertures are perfectlyfree, and unencumbered intheir Anatomical descriptionswill be found to give differ-ent significations to the wordglottis. Some have applied Fig. View of Larynx from e h, the thyroid cartilage, embracing the ring? i /> of the cricoid r a x to, and turning upon the axis zz, It tO the Upper Cleft, SOme tO which passes through the lower horns, c. Fig. JOS, n f, n f, the arytenoid cartilages, connected by thearytenoideus transversus; t v, t v, the vocal liga-ments ; n x, the right cricoarytenoideus lateralis(the left being removed); v kf, the right thyro-aryte-noideus (the left being removed); n I, n I. the crico-arytenoidei postici; b b, the crico-arytenoid liga-ments. — (Willis.) Fig. 107. the lower; some, again, tothe ventricles of the larynx ;and others to the whole space,comprised between the infe-rior ligaments and the top ofthe larynx. It is now, generally perhaps, restricted to the part of thelarynx engaged in the production of voice, or usually considered tobe so engaged, — that is, the space between the inferior ligamentswith the ligaments themselves; and inthis signification
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