A-rȳt'e-noid, a.

a. [Gr. ἀρύταινα, a ladle, from ἀρύω, to draw off, and εἶδος, form.] Shaped like a funnel or a ladle;—applied in anatomy to two small cartilages at the top of the larynx, and also to the glands, muscles, &c., connected with them. Dunglison.