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Oblique arytenoid

Narrow inlet by bringing aryepiglottic folds together

Thyroepiglottic muscle

Widens inlet by pulling aryepiglottic folds apart

Crycothyroid muscle

Tenses vocal cords


Only one that is external laryngeal nerve (sup LN)

Thyroartenoid (vocalis) muscle

Relaxes vocal cord

Lateral cricoarytenoid muscle

Adducts the vocal cords by rotating arytenoid cartilage

Posterior cricoarytenoid muscle

Abducts the vocal cords by rotating arytenoid cartilage

Transverse arytenoid muscle

Closes posterior part of rima glottidis by approximating arytenoid cartilages