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Webster 1913 Edition

(kr?′koid)

Adj.

[Gr. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK][GREEK] ring +

-oid

(Anat.)

Resembling a ring; – said esp. of the cartilage at the larynx, and the adjoining parts.

cricoid ‎(comparative more cricoid, superlative most cricoid)

cricoid ‎(plural cricoids)

(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.