Please correct the seventh paragraph in my last e-mail:
I wrote:
"The cricothyroid muscles are basically stretching muscles that
lengthen the vocal folds and, in so doing, increase the longitudinal
tension along the folds. The cricothyroid muscles achieve this
lengthening of the vocal folds by contracting and thereby pulling the
lower posterior of the thyroid cartilage toward the posterior of the
cricothyroid cartilage."
The words "posterior" in this paragraph should have been "anterior".
It is the front of the thyroid cartilage that is pulled toward the
front of the cricothyroid cartilage. The corrected paragraph should
read:
The cricothyroid muscles are basically stretching muscles that
lengthen the vocal folds and, in so doing, increase the longitudinal
tension along the folds. The cricothyroid muscles achieve this
lengthening of the vocal folds by contracting and thereby pulling the
lower anterior of the thyroid cartilage toward the anterior of the
cricothyroid cartilage.
Sorry for the error.
--
Lloyd W. Hanson
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