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11 Cards in this Set
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What is the most important function of the larynx?
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Keeping the airway open.
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What is the second most important function of the larynx?
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Vocalization
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What are the parts involved in breathing and vocalization?
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arytenoid cartilage
- vocal process - muscular process |
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Where do the muscle movements occur?
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between the arytenoid and cricoid cartilages (cricoarytenoid joints)
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What muscle laterally abducts the arytenoid cartilages?
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the PCA (posterior cricoarytenoid) muscle.
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What are the abdominal muscles supplied by?
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the lower intercostal muscles
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In the speech process, how are sounds produced?
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by air blowing past the vocal cords
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What are the muscles involved in tonal or pitch variations?
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The recurrent laryngeal and external laryngeal nerves.
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What do the stylopharyngeal muscles do?
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They pull the pharynx and larynx upward. Longer pipes are low pitch, shorter pipes are high pitch.
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What is the primary function of the respiratory system?
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supply oxygen to the blood (i.e., breathing).
It also functions as the basic mechanism for supplying power to the speech production system (air moving through the larynx). |
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What are the three important groups of muscles in the respiratory system?
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the diaphragm, and the internal and external intercostals.
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