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Definition of Cricoid
1. a. Resembling a ring; -- said esp. of the cartilage at the larynx, and the adjoining parts.
Definition of Cricoid
1. Adjective. (anatomy) Shaped like a ring, usually with reference to the cricoid cartilage. ¹
2. Noun. (anatomy) The cricoid cartilage. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cricoid
1. a cartilage of the larynx [n -S]
Medical Definition of Cricoid
1. Ring-shaped;denoting the cricoid cartilage. Origin: L. Cricoideus, fr. G. Krikos, a ring, + eidos, form (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cricoid
Literary usage of Cricoid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1893)
"The ligaments connecting the thyroid cartilage to the cricoid are also three in
number—the crico-thyroid membrane and the capsular ligaments. ..."
2. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1895)
"Of fractures of the larynx less than a hundred are yet upon record —to be exact,
ninety-two, inclusive of cricoid fractures. Those involving the thyroid ..."
3. Medical lexicon by Robley Dunglison (1860)
"It extends from the prominent line, at the middle of the posterior surface of
the cricoid cartilage, to the outer and posterior part of the base of the ..."
4. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"The cricoid cartilage (Fig. 181 CVi.) is, practically, a largely developed tracheal
ring (§ 319). Forming a complete thick hoop, high behind and low in ..."
5. A Textbook of Physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"188), is larger in its vertical dimensions than is the cricoid, and is of peculiar
form, both its upper and lower border ending behind in the form of a horn ..."
6. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"Ossification commences about the twenty-fifth year in the thyroid cartilage,
somewhat later in the cricoid and arytenoids : by the sixty-fifth year these ..."
7. A Practical Treatise on Fractures and Dislocations by Frank Hastings Hamilton (1871)
"The pomum Adami was depressed to the level of the cricoid cartilage, ...
The fracture through the cricoid cartilage commenced close upon the margin of a ..."
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