cricoidaladj.
/ˌkrʌɪˈkɔɪdl/, U.S. /ˌkraɪˈkɔɪd(ə)l/ Anatomy. rare before late 19th cent.
= cricoid adj.
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cricoid1657
cricoidal1698
arytenoid1728
cricothyroid1740
cricoarytenoid1754
thyroidal1827
thyroid1828
epiglottidean1840
thyro-epiglottic1844
thyro-arytenoid1855
thyroidean1860
thyropharyngean1860
arytenoidal1872
thyropalatine1872
epiglottic1887
thyrolingual1896
thyro-epiglottidean1901
post-cricoid1907
1698 W. Cowper Anat. Humane Bodies Table 24 sig. N/2 The Cricoidal Cartilage cover'd with the Internal Membrane of the Œsophagus which composes the Glottis.
1859 Musical Times Feb. 390/2 (caption) Cricoidal cartilage.
1890 Proc. Zool. Soc. London 202 Extending from a cricoidal process to the anterior tip of the arytenoid bone..we have a dilator muscle, which by its contraction will open the glottis.
1900 J. A. Mandel tr. O. Hammarsten Text-bk. Physiol. Chem. (ed. 3) x. 317 The tracheal, thyroideal, cricoidal, and arytenoidal cartilages of full-grown cattle contain..four constituents in the matrix.
1971 Jrnl. Pediatric Surg. 6 733 We now feel that long-term bouginage in cricoidal stenosis has little to recommend it.
1998 P. F. Neumann et al. in W. M. Wells Med. Image Computing 924 There is a slight variation in the stitches used to fix the patch to the cricoidal remnant posteriorly and to the vocal cord remnant anteriorly.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1698