Chapter 2 Anatomy Of Swallowing Flashcards
List the surface features of the oral cavity and pharynx.
Anterior Boundary of the Oral Cavity:
- Lips & Teeth
Lateral Boundary of the Oral Cavity:
- The teeth & cheeks forming the lateral boundary
Superior Boundary of the Oral Cavity:
- Hard & soft palate
Midline at the Posterior Edge:
- With the uvula hanging midline at the posterior edge of the soft palate.
Lateral Posterior Boundary of the Oral Cavity:
- Faucial pillars, formed by the palatoglossal & palatopharyngeal folds.
- Epithelium is moistened by saliva, produced by salivary glands that line the oral cavity.
- In the mucosa of the floor of the mouth are found openings for the submandibular & sublingual glands.
- Openings of the parotid glands are found between the cheeks & upper molars.
- The entire oral cavity is innervated with somatosensory neurons that provide information about the temperature, volume, consistency & position of a bolus that is critical to effective swallowing.
What are the various types of papillae on the surface of the tongue?
- Filiform
- Foliate
- Vallate
- Can be found that house many taste receptors
What are the focal structures visualized in a videofluoroscopic study to assess the oral phase of swallowing?
The lips, tongue, and soft palate are focal structures visualized in a videofluoroscopic study to assess the oral phase of swallowing.
What are the pharynx incorporates four portals or quadrivium into other conduits include?
- Oral cavity
- Nasal cavity
- Trachea
- Esophagus
What is the pharynx connected to and integrates with?
- The pharynx is connected to and integrates with multiple skeletal elements, including bones & cartilage.
- The inner surface of the muscular pharynx is covered with a tough sheet of deep fascia called the pharyngobasilar fascia, a membrane that is lined with a continuous layer of mucosa.
- This mucosal lining drapes over the entire inner surface of the pharynx, including muscles, bone, & cartilage.
- This mucosal draping creates named spaces & folds.
What are the 3 subdivision of the pharynx?
- Nasopharynx
- Oropharynx
- Laryngopharynx is more often clinically referred to as the hypopharynx.
Where does the bolus passes through?
A bolus passes from the oral cavity through the oropharynx and hypopharynx to the esophagus.
What spaces are most relevant to swallowing in the pharynx?
- The spaces most relevant to swallowing in the pharynx are the valleculae & the piriform recesses or sinuses.
- The valleculae or “little valley,” lie between the median & lateral glossoepiglottic folds & become a potential reservoir for pharyngeal residue.
- The other common sites for residue are the piriform recesses, spaces lateral to the larynx created by the mucosa draping from the laryngeal in let to the muscular pharyngeal wall on either side.
- When the pharynx is relaxed, residue can pool either piriform recess on the side of the upper esophagus sphincter.
What are the additional folds that are formed by structures that lie within each pharyngeal folds?
- Median glossoepiglottic fold is formed by mucosa draping over the glossoepiglottic ligament.
- Aryepiglottic folds border the laryngeal vestibule & contain small variable muscle fascicles.
- The palatoglossal fold & palatopharyneal folds, formed by muscles with the same name, descend from the palate tonsil & are referred to as the anterior & posterior faucial pillar, respectively.
- Salpingopharyngeal fold forms around the salpingopharyngeal muscle, beginning at the opening of the auditory tube I the nasopharynx & extending inferiorly into the hypopharynx on the lateral pharyngeal walls.
What are the subdivision anatomical, and it’s regions are of the pharynx?
Nasopharynx
- Opening into the choanae of the nasal cavity, is closed inferiorly by the soft palate or velum, and is bordered posteriorly and laterally by the pharyngeal walls.
Boundaries of the Oropharynx
- Are marked by the Oropharyngeal isthmus anteriorly, the velum (soft palate) superiorly, the epiglottis inferiorly, and the pharyngeal walls, posteriorly and laterally.
Border the Hypopharynx
- The epiglottis, laryngeal vestibule, esophagus, and pharyngeal walls, including the piriform recesses.
What are the recognizable features of the Nasopharynx, Oropharynx, & Hypopharynx?
Oropharynx & Hypopharynx
- Include the soft palate, uvula, faucial pillars, palatine tonsils, laryngeal vestibule, upper esophageal sphincter, valleculae, and piriform recess.
- Features of the Nasopharynx are oriented around the opening to the auditory or pharyngotympanic tube.
What are the tonsils and features?
Tubal tonsils
- Located on mucosa covering the opening of the auditory tube.
Pharyngeal tonsils, also called the adenoids
- Located posterior to the opening of the auditory tube.
- Enlarged adenoids can block both the nasal cavity & the auditory tube, leading to mouth breathing & problems in craniofacial development in children.
Palatine tonsils, often called tonsils
- Located inferior to the palate between the faucial pillars.
- All of these tonsils form a ring of lymphoid tissue (Waldeyer’s ring) surrounding the oral & nasal cavity portals to the pharynx, serving to protect the body from exogenous material.
- Severe inflammation of tonsils makes swallowing painful & difficult.
What is the difference between the innervation of the pharynx & the mucosa covering of the larynx, & the laryngeal vestibule?
- The pharynx does not have the same degree of somatosensory innervation as the oral cavity.
- The mucosa covering the faucial arches, opening of the larynx & the laryngeal vestibule is densely innervated.
What bones are connected to the proximal openings of the pharynx into the oral & nasal cavity?
The proximal openings of the pharynx into the oral & nasal cavity are connected to bones of the viscerocranium and cranial base.
What bones are connected to the distal openings into the trachea & esophagus?
The distal openings into the trachea & esophagus connect to the hyolaryngeal complex.
What does the oral cavity encompasses?
- The oral cavity encompasses the mandible, the maxilla, the teeth, & the palatine bone from which the soft palate extends posteriorly.
Where are the teeth housed?
- Teeth are housed within the alveolar processes of the maxilla and mandible.
What does the medial pterygoid plates serve as?
- The medial pterygoid plates serve as an attachment site for the superior and of the pharynx leading into the nasal cavity.
What bones are all important cranial base attachments sites for muscles underlying mastication & swallowing?
- The pharyngeal tubercle of the occipital bone, the styloid process and mastoid process of temporal bone, and other surfaces of the temporal and sphenoid bones are all important cranial base attachment sites for muscles underlying mastication & swallowing.
What is the hyolaryngeal complex composed of?
- The hyolaryngeal complex is composed of the hyoid bone, laryngeal cartilages, and associated structures.
What are the 5 cartilages of the laryngeal skeleton composed primarily of?
- Thyroid
- Cricoid
- Paired arytenoids
- Epiglottis
What attaches the epiglottis to the hyoid & thyroid cartilage?
- Ligaments attach the epiglottis to the hyoid and thyroid cartilage.
What cartilages serve as important attachment sites for the inferior pharyngeal constrictor muscle connecting the pharynx & esophagus?
Of the laryngeal cartilages, the thyroid & cricoid cartilages serve as important attachment sites for the inferior pharyngeal constrictor muscle connecting the pharynx & esophagus.
What are the dense ligaments that tether the thyroid cartilage to the hyoid, & the cricoid to the thyroid cartilages?
Dense ligaments tether the thyroid cartilage to the hyoid (called the thyrohyoid membrane), & the cricoid to the thyroid cartilages (called the cricothyroid ligament).
What are the valve function of the larynx primarily involves with?
The valve functions of the larynx primarily involves the arytenoid, cricoid, & thyroid cartilages.
What anchors the hyoid inferiorly attached to the posterior facet of the sternum & scapula?
Muscles anchoring the hyoid inferiorly attach to the posterior facet of the sternum & scapula.
In osteology, what is directly relevant to the functional swallowing apparatus included?
The osteology relevant to the functional swallowing apparatus includes the mandible, the hard palate (maxilla & the palatine bones), the medial pterygoid plates of the sphenoid, the styloid & mastoid process of the temporal bone, the temporomandibular joint, the hyoid & laryngeal cartilages (thyroid, cricoid, arytenoid, & epiglottis), & the sternum & scapulae.
What structure is visible in the anterior portion of the neck?
The larynx is a visible structure in the anterior portion of the neck.
Where is the larynx located?
The larynx is located in the most inferior portion of the pharynx, the hypopharynx, or laryngopharynx.
What are attached to the vocal folds and the muscles that accomplish movement of and within the larynx?
The vocal folds and the muscles that accomplish movement of and within this organ are attached to the laryngeal cartilages.
What laryngeal cartilages form a series of synovial joints?
The laryngeal cartilages that form a series of synovial joints are the cricothyroid joint, & the cricoarytenoid joints.
What does the cricothyroid joint allow?
The cricothyroid joint allows the cricoid cartilage to rotate around the thyroid cartilage, which shortens or lengthens the vocal folds.
What does the cricoarytenoid joints allow?
- Movement at the cricoarytenoid joints allows for the vocal folds sliding toward or away from each other.
- Also, the cricoarytenoid joints allows for anterior tilting of the vocal folds.
What other elements of the skeleton are indirectly relevant to swallowing, and are important dysphagia management?
- The cervical vertebrae, atlantoaxial joint, & atlantooccipital joint all lie within the prevertebral compartment of the neck.
- Muscles and bones in this compartment are primarily concerned with the position of the head and neck.
- Flexing and extending the head and neck or turning the head from one side to another changes the morphology of the pharynx and may add mechanical advantage to swallowing musculature.
How should the movement of the hyoid should be evaluated?
Although the hyoid appears to be related to the vertebrae, movement of the hyoid should be evaluated in relationship to the mandible to which it is attached, and not the vertebrae, to which it is not attached.
What is basicranium?
- The basicranium is the underside of the skull (not including the hard palate).
- It forms the base of the calvarium (brain case), & posterior portion of the pharynx.
- At birth, the basicranium shows a general flatness with no marked angulation, which is significantly different than the sharp angle seen in the adult basicranium.
- The lack of angulation in the infant basicranium is desirable for maintaining potency in the pharynx for respiration; however, it limits the verbalization potential for the infant by shortening the vocal tract.
- There is rapid change to the head and neck regions, due in large part to the rapid growth of the brain, during the first several years of life.
- This results in visible changes to the basicranium.