The most superior of the laryngeal cartilages, which is found at the root of the tongue and folds back over the entrance to the larynx during swallowing. [ MP:0002259 ]
This is just here as a test because I lose it
Term information
database
cross reference
- EMAPA:37522 (MA:th)
- MA:0001763
- SCTID:278990001
- MESH:D004825 (https://github.com/biopragmatics/biomappings)
- NCIT:C32526
- UMLS:C0458526 (ncithesaurus:Epiglottic_Cartilage)
- FMA:55112
Subsets
uberon_slim
depiction
https://cdn.humanatlas.io/digital-objects/ref-organ/larynx-male/v1.1/assets/3d-vh-m-larynx.glb
https://cdn.humanatlas.io/digital-objects/ref-organ/larynx-female/v1.1/assets/3d-vh-f-larynx.glb
Term relations
Subclass of:
- digestive system element
- laryngeal cartilage
- composed primarily of some elastic cartilage tissue
- part of some epiglottis