lamina of cricoid cartilage

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Introduction

A quadrate plate froming the posterior part of cricoid cartilage.

  • resembles the shield of a signet ring, the arch of the cricoid representing the remainder of the ring

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References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.