cricoid

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The cricoid cartilage

What luck that Mr. Romeo still gripped and twisted and cracked that crooked cricoid as X-rayed by the firemen and mountain guides in the street.

Shaped like a ring, usually with reference to the cricoid cartilage
{s} pertaining to ring-shaped cartilage in the larynx
Pertaining to the cricoid cartilage, a ring of cartilage that forms a part of the larynx
of the cartilage at the larynx, and the adjoining parts
Resembling a ring; said esp
Shaped like a ring
cricoid

    Hyphenation

    cri·coid

    Pronunciation

    Etymology

    () From Ancient Greek κρικοειδής (krikoeidēs, “ring-shaped”), from κρίκος (“ring”).
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