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Head: Larynx Flashcards

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Larynx (voice box) function

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  • Voice production
  • Separate food and air
  • Guard air passage, maintain patent airway
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Cartilages of the larynx

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  • 9 total
  • 3 unpaired
  • 3 paired
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3 unpaired cartilages of the larynx

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  • Thyroid
  • Cricoid
  • Epiglottic
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3 paired cartilages of the larynx

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  • Arytenoid
  • Corniculate
  • Cuneiform
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Thyroid cartilage located at vertebral level

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  • C4,5
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Thyroid cartilage lamina form

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  • Laryngeal prominence anteriorly (“Adam’s apple”)

- Superior horns

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Inferior horns of thyroid cartilage form

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  • Cricothyroid joint: rotation and gliding movements
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Cricoid Cartilage

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  • Vertebral level C6

- Lamina & arch

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Epiglottic cartilage

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  • Elastic cartilage
  • Located at laryngeal inlet
  • Thyro-epiglottic and hyo-epiglottic ligaments
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Arytenoid cartilages

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  • Pyramid shaped
  • Vocal process
  • Muscular process
  • Cricoarytenoid joint
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Cricoarytenoid joint

allows movement of

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  • Arytenoid cartilages
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Arytenoid cartilages apex attaches to

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  • Corniculate cartilage
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Laryngeal membranes/ligaments

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  • Thyrohyoid membrane
  • Cricothyroid membrane (median and lateral)
  • Quadrangular membrane
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Thyrohyoid membrane

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  • Connects thyroid cartilage and hyoid bone

- Pierced by superior laryngeal vessels and internal laryngeal nerve

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Median cricothyroid membrane

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  • Connects cricoid and thyroid cartilages anteriorly
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Lateral cricothyroid membrane (conus elasticus)

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  • Connects cricoid cartilage with thyroid and arytenoid cartilages
  • Free superior border forms the vocal ligament
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Vocal ligament

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  • Sound production

- Vocal ligament covered in mucosa: vocal fold

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Quadrangular membrane

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  • Extends between lateral parts of epiglottic and arytenoid cartilages
  • Inferior free margin is the vestibular ligament
  • The mucosa covered superior margin forms aryepiglottic fold
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Vestibular ligament

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  • Vestibular ligament covered in mucosa: vestibular fold

- Little involvement in sound production

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Aryepiglottic fold

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  • Contributes to lateral boundary of laryngeal inlet

- Corniculate and cuneiform cartilages are embedded within

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Laryngeal cavity extends

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  • From laryngeal inlet (aditus) to cricoid cartilage
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Laryngeal cavity contains

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  • Laryngeal vestibule
  • Infraglottic space
  • Laryngeal ventricle
  • Laryngeal saccule
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Laryngeal vestibule is located

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  • Above the vestibular fold
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Infraglottic space is located

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  • Below vocal folds
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Laryngeal ventricle

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  • Recess between vestibular and vocal folds
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Laryngeal saccule

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  • Blind pocket that opens into the ventricle

- Lined with mucous glands

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Glottis (vocal apparatus) contains

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  • Vocal ligament
  • Vocal process
  • Rima glottidis
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Rima glottidis

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  • Shape varies and depends on vocal fold position
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Extrinsic laryngeal muscles

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  • Muscles that move the hyoid and larynx
  • Infrahyoid Muscles
  • Suprahyoid Muscles
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Intrinsic laryngeal muscles function

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  • Alter length and tension of vocal cords

- Alter size of rima glottidis

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Intrinsic laryngeal muscles named by

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  • Attachment
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Intrinsic laryngeal muscle innervation

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  • All innervated by vagus nerve
  • Recurrent laryngeal nerve
  • External laryngeal nerve
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Cricothyroid muscle innervation

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  • Only intrinsic laryngeal muscle innervated by external laryngeal nerve
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Intrinsic laryngeal muscles

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  • Thyro-arytenoid and vocalis
  • Posterior crico-arytenoid
  • Lateral crico-arytenoid
  • Transverse and oblique arytenoids
  • Thyro-epiglottic
  • Aryepiglottic
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Thyro-epiglottic muscle function

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  • Affects size of laryngeal inlet
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Aryepiglottic muscle function

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  • Affects size of laryngeal inlet
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Cricothyroid muscle function

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  • Tenses (stretches) vocal ligament
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Transverse arytenoid muscle function

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  • Adducts arytenoid cartilages
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Oblique arytenoid muscle function

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  • Adducts arytenoid cartilage
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Posterior crico-arytenoid muscle function

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  • Abducts vocal folds
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Thyro-arytenoid muscle function

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  • Relaxes vocal ligament
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Lateral crico-arytenoid muscle function

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  • Adducts vocal folds
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Arteries of the larynx

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  • Superior laryngeal artery

- Inferior laryngeal artery

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Superior laryngeal artery

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  • Branch of superior thyroid artery
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Inferior laryngeal artery

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  • Branch of inferior thyroid artery
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Veins of the larynx

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  • Similar to the arteries in name and pattern

- Drain into superior and inferior thyroid vein

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Superior laryngeal nerve branches

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  • External laryngeal nerve
  • Internal laryngeal nerve
  • Recurrent (inferior) laryngeal nerve
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External laryngeal nerve

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  • Travels with superior thyroid artery

- Innervation: motor cricothyroid muscle

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Internal laryngeal nerve

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  • Travels with superior laryngeal artery

- Innervation: sensory to laryngeal mucosa above vocal folds

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Injury to superior laryngeal nerve

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  • Anesthesia of mucosa above vocal folds

- Impaired ability to change tension of vocal fold

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Recurrent (inferior) laryngeal nerve

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  • Travels near inferior thyroid and inferior laryngeal artery
  • Innervates all laryngeal muscles (except 1)
  • Sensory to laryngeal mucosa below vocal folds (infraglottic cavity)
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Injury to recurrent laryngeal (inferior laryngeal nerve)

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  • Neck/thyroid surgery
  • Sensory loss below vocal folds
  • Altered voice
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Hyoid bone vertebral level

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Thyroid cartilage vertebral level

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Cricoid cartilage level

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  • C6
  • Junction of larynx and trachea
  • Junction pharynx and esophagus

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