Thyroid cartilage

Bones · Latin: Cartilago thyreoidea

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The thyroid cartilage is the largest of the nine cartilages that make up the laryngeal skeleton, the cartilage structure in and around the trachea that contains the larynx.

It does not completely encircle the larynx (only the cricoid cartilage encircles it).

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