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Larynx has 4 purposes. What are they?
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1.Connects pharynx to Trachea
2.Protects lower passage from foreign materials. 3. Can be used to hold air captive in lungs. 4. Generates Sound |
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The Skeleton of the Larynx consists of 4 Cartilaginous structures. What are they?
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1. Epiglottis
2. Thyroid 3. Arytenoids. 4. Cricoid |
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Does the Thyroid Gland surround the larynx?
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Yes.
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The Thyroid Cartilage consists of what three things.?
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1 .Quadrilateral Plates or Thyroid Laminae and
2. Thyroid Notch 3. Thyroid prominence |
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Purpose of the Thyroid Cartilage is to what?
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Flares out to protect anterior and lateral larynx.
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Another name for Quadralateral Plates
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Thyroid Laminae
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Superior Cornu or horns point toward what?
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Hyoid Bone
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The inferior Cornu rests on what?
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Cricoid Cartilage
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The thyroid cartilage is anterior to what cervicle vertebrae?
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C4-C6
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Qualities of the Cricoid Cartilage?
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Shaped like a signet ring.
The arch is low and narrow anterior The lamina is wide and thick and posterior. |
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The Cricothyroid ligament seals space between what?
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The thyroid and cricoid.
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The cricoid attaches posteriorly to what?
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The thyroid
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The inferior cornu of the thyroid attaches to what?
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The articular facets of the cricoid cartilage on Left and Right sides.
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The arytenoids are paired and has two parts what are they?
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Base and Apex
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The arytenoids sit on top of what?
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Cricoid cartilage lamina
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Vocal ligaments are paired on both sides Left and Right and sit inferior to what ligament.
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Ventricular ligament.
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The vocal ligament attaches to what?
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Vocal process and medial fibers of vocal muscles.
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The muscular process holds what?
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Holds lateral portion of the vocal folds and lateral and posterior cricoarytenoid muscles.
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Ventricular ligament attaches to what?
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Attaches to inner surface of thyroid cartilages.
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Arytenoid cartilages consist of what?
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Vocal process and muscular process.
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A small horn-shaped, extention of arytenoids.
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corniculate cartilages
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Small rod shaped embedded in aryepiglottic fold that sometimes doesn't exist.
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cuneiform cartilages
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Epiglottic cartilage is described as what shape?
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Large leaf shaped
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The Petiolus or Stem of the epiglottis attaches where?
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Attaches to the inner front surface of thyroid cartilage just beneath the thyroid bone.
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What ligament epiglottis to the hyoid bone.
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Hyoepiglottic ligament
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The epiglottic cartilage influences what and is important because?
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Resonance, deflects food and liquids from being swallowed
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Hyoid bone is shaped like what?
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U shaped
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Location of the hyoid bone
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3rd cervical vertebrae
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Greater horns are what?
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Arms that extend posteriorly and slightly horizontally on the hyoid bone.
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The superior horns of the thyroid cartilage or the cornu articulate with what?
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The greater horns of the hyoid bone
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Lesser horns are what shape?
They rise from the hyoid bone posteriorly or superiorly? |
Cone shaped.
Superiorly |
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Hyoid bone attaches to 9 pairs of muscles
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Tongue, pharynx, temporal bone, mandible, scapula, larynx, sternum.
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Hyoid bone forms the base for what?
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Tongue
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Larynx has 4 purposes. What are they?
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1.Connects pharynx to Trachea
2.Protects lower passage from foreign materials. 3. Can be used to hold air captive in lungs. 4. Generates Sound |
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The Skeleton of the Larynx consists of 4 Cartilaginous structures. What are they?
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1. Epiglottis
2. Thyroid 3. Arytenoids. 4. Cricoid |
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Does the Thyroid Gland surround the larynx?
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Yes.
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The Thyroid Cartilage consists of what three things.?
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1 .Quadrilateral Plates or Thyroid Laminae and
2. Thyroid Notch 3. Thyroid prominence |
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Purpose of the Thyroid Cartilage is to what?
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Flares out to protect anterior and lateral larynx.
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