Features
- Also known as the voice box or Adams apple
- Relationships
- Superior border: pharynx
- Inferior border: trachea
- Cartilages
- Thyroid cartillage
- Epiglotis
- Blocks trachea
- Attached to posterior of thyroid notch by thyroepiglotic ligament
- Membranes
- Thyrohyoid membrane: from thyroid cartilage to hydoid bone
- Muscles
- Thyrohyoid muscle: suspends the larynx from the hyoid bone
Laryngeal Anatomy