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Cricoid - What does it mean?

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is likely misspelled.


has no English definition.

As an adjective cricoid

is shaped like a ring, usually with reference to the cricoid cartilage.

As a noun cricoid

is the cricoid cartilage.

cricoid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (anatomy) Shaped like a ring, usually with reference to the cricoid cartilage.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy) The cricoid cartilage.
  • * 1972 , Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things , McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 81:
    • What luck that Mr. Romeo still gripped and twisted and cracked that crooked cricoid as X-rayed by the firemen and mountain guides in the street.

    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.