thyroid cartilage
The largest of the laryngeal cartilages. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the thyroid cartilage is
The largest of the laryngeal cartilages. The atlas records it as a cartilage at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the thyroid cartilage is
It sits within the skeletal and respiratory systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the thyroid cartilage connects to
The atlas records 19 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. part of larynx and splanchnocranium.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the thyroid cartilage. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.
Also called
Also recorded as cartilago thyroidea, laryngeal prominence, pomus and pomus adamus. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001738, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: larynx and splanchnocranium.
- A kind of: anatomical structure and laryngeal cartilage.
- Attaches to: cricothyroid muscle.
- inserts into: cricothyroid muscle, palatopharyngeus muscle, salpingopharyngeus muscle, sternothyroid muscle and stylopharyngeus muscle.
- connects: cricothyroid joint, cricothyroid ligament, thyroepiglottic ligament and vestibular ligament.
- originates from: inferior pharyngeal constrictor, thyro-arytenoid and thyropharyngeus muscle.
- contains: horn of thyroid cartilage and laryngeal prominence.
Questions
Where is the thyroid cartilage?
It sits within the skeletal and respiratory systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the thyroid cartilage connect to?
Part of: larynx and splanchnocranium.
Is the thyroid cartilage the same in other species?
Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.