cricoid

From Ancient Greek κρικοειδής (krikoeidḗs, “ring-shaped”), from κρίκος (kríkos, “ring”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹʌɪkɔɪd/

cricoid (comparative more cricoid, superlative most cricoid)

1. (anatomy) Shaped like a ring, usually with reference to the cricoid cartilage.

cricoid (plural cricoids)

1. (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.

• circoid