Cricoid is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 80 anagrams from letters in cricoid (ccdiior).
1700-10; New Latin cricoīdes Greek krikoeidḗs ring-shaped. See circle, -oid
The cricoid (krikos, a signet-ring) is the cartilage next in size.
The cricoid cartilage was imperfect in form; the hyo-epiglottic muscles very strong.
It is composed of two parts, and is connected with the bone of the tongue above, and with the cricoid cartilage below.
The thyroid thus rests upon, and is movable on, the cricoid cartilage.
The cricoid cartilage corresponds in level to that of the lower border of the sixth cervical vertebræ and its transverse process.
The middle cervical ganglion of the sympathetic lies opposite the level of the cricoid.
Laryngo-tracheotomy, when the cricoid cartilage and the upper ring of the trachea are divided.
From the under side of the thyroid two horns project downwards to become jointed to the cricoid.
The latter is connected with the cricoid cartilage by its membrane.
In children it is sometimes found necessary to divide the cricoid for this purpose (laryngo-tracheotomy).