Usually means: Ring-shaped cartilage around trachea.
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  1. cricoid cartilage: Wiktionary
  2. cricoid cartilage: Dictionary.com
  3. Cricoid cartilage: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. cricoid cartilage: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. cricoid cartilage: Encyclopedia

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  1. cricoid cartilage: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  5. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  6. Cricoid cartilage: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  7. cricoid cartilage: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (cricoid cartilage)

noun:  (anatomy) A ring of hyaline cartilage which articulates with the lower cornua of the thyroid cartilage and with which the arytenoid cartilages articulate; it forms the inferior wall of the larynx.

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