vocalis muscle

The vocal muscle is the upper portion of the thyroarytenoid muscle which is primarily involved in producing speech. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the vocalis muscle is

The vocal muscle is the upper portion of the thyroarytenoid muscle which is primarily involved in producing speech. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the vocalis muscle is

It sits in the neck, within the muscular and respiratory systems. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the vocalis muscle connects to

The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 2 kinds of connection. part of larynx and thyro-arytenoid.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the vocalis muscle. 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 vocal muscle, vocalis and musculus vocalis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0008577, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: larynx and thyro-arytenoid.
• A kind of: laryngeal intrinsic muscle and organ.

Questions

Where is the vocalis muscle?

It sits in the neck, within the muscular and respiratory systems. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What does the vocalis muscle connect to?

Part of: larynx and thyro-arytenoid.

Is the vocalis muscle 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.