title: Corniculate cartilages
text: # Corniculate cartilages
  
  The corniculate cartilages (cartilages of Santorini) are two small conical nodules consisting of elastic cartilage, which articulate with the summits of the arytenoid cartilages and serve to prolong them posteriorly and medially.
  
  They are situated in the posterior parts of the aryepiglottic folds of mucous membrane, and are sometimes fused with the arytenoid cartilages.
  
  ## Eponym
  
  It is named by Giovanni Domenico Santorini. The word "Corniculate" has a Latin root "cornu". Cornu means horn like projections. The projections of Corniculate cartilage look like "horns" hence the name.
  
  ## Additional images
  
  * The cartilages of the larynx. Posterior view.
  * Laryngoscopic view of interior of larynx.
  * Muscles of larynx. Posterior view.
  * Muscles of larynx. Side view. Right lamina of thyroid cartilage removed.
  * Corniculate cartilages
  