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cuneiform cartilage

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Medical Definition of cuneiform cartilage

: either of a pair of rods of yellow elastic cartilage of which each lies on one side of the larynx in an aryepiglottic fold just below the arytenoid cartilage

— called also cartilage of Wrisberg

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“Cuneiform cartilage.” Merriam-Webster.com Medical Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/cuneiform%20cartilage. Accessed 30 Nov. 2021.

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