A variant or archaic anatomical term relating to or referring to the cricoid cartilage or cricoid region.
Likely a Latinized or Neo-Latin form derived from 'cricoid,' with the Latin masculine singular ending '-us.' This form appears in older medical texts.
In older medical Latin texts, you'll find forms like 'cricotus' that have largely been replaced by more standardized anatomical terminology—it's a linguistic fossil from when medical education was conducted entirely in Latin.
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