Exam 1 Part 3

Question 1

Cricoarytenoid joint can move in what motions?

Answer 1

Medial-lateral rocking motion, sliding motion

Question 2

What type of joint is the cricoarytenoid joint?

Answer 2

Saddle

Question 3

Superior tips of the arytenoid cartilage

Answer 3

Corniculate cartilage

Question 4

T/F: The rocking motion is a medial and lateral movement of arytenoids where the vocal folds move closer and father apart respectively.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

T/F: The sliding motion is where the arytenoids slide downward and upwards on lateral sides of cricoid cartilage where no tissue changes in vocal folds occur.

Answer 5

False; Tissue changes occur as vocal folds shortens and lengthens when the arytenoids move anterolateral and posteriomedial directions.

Question 6

Two fused plates that form a V shape with superior and inferior horns

Answer 6

Thyroid cartilage

Question 7

What does the thyroid cartilage form?

Answer 7

Thyroid or laryngeal prominence (Adam’s apple)

Question 8

Part of the thyroid cartilage that are attached to the back of the hyoid bone

Answer 8

Superior horn

Question 9

Part of the thyroid cartilage that is attached to the cricoid cartilage

Answer 9

Inferior horn

Question 10

Allows the thyroid and cricoid to rotate relative to each other

Answer 10

Cricothyroid joint

Question 11

Structure that arises from a narrow stalk near the thyroid notch

Answer 11

Epiglottis

Question 12

What is the function of the epiglottis?

Answer 12

Airway protection during the swallow

Question 13

Valleculae are formed by what 2 structures

Answer 13

Base of tongue and lingual surface of the epiglottis

Question 14

Vocal folds extend from the _____ to the inside of the ____

Answer 14

arytenoids, thyroid notch

Question 15

Space between the true and false vocal folds

Answer 15

Ventricle

Question 16

What are the vocal folds made of (5)?

Answer 16

Epithelium, superficial, intermediate, and deep connective tissue, and muscle

Question 17

The connective tissues that make up the vocal folds

Answer 17

Lamina propria

Question 18

What are the 3 layers of the lamina propria?

Answer 18

Superficial, intermediate, deep

Question 19

What 2 muscles make up the vocal folds?

Answer 19

Thyrovocalis, thyromuscularis

Question 20

Separates the epithelium from the vocal fold connective tissue

Answer 20

Basement membrane