Larynx

Question 1

only bone not connected to any bone in the body

Answer 1

Hyoid bone

Question 2

Hyoid bone is connected to thyroid cartilage via what membrane

Answer 2

Thyrohyoid membrane

Question 3

Only cartilage that js a complete ring in the entire respi tract

Answer 3

Cricoid cartilage

Question 4

What cartilage comes before the trachea

Answer 4

Cricoid cartilage

Question 5

Joining together of cricoid and trachea is at what level

Answer 5

C6

Question 6

Start of esophagus what level

Answer 6

C6

Question 7

Unpaired cartilages lf laryngeal skeleton

Answer 7

Epiglottic cartilage
Thyroid cartilage
Cricoid cartilage

Question 8

Paired cartilages

Answer 8

Arytenoid cartilage
Corniculate cartilage
Cuneiform cartilage

Question 9

Attached to the inner side kf the thyroid cartilage

Answer 9

Epiglottic cartilage

Question 10

Diff bet ligament and membrane

Answer 10

Membrane is flat

Ligament is a thickened structure

Question 11

Attachment of the arytenoid to the thyroid

Answer 11

Vocal ligament

Question 12

Involved in voice production

Answer 12

Vocal ligament

Question 13

Attaches the arytenoid to the epiglottis

Answer 13

Quadrangular membrane

Question 14

How many quadrangular membranes and why

Answer 14

2 bec 2 arytenoid cartilages

Question 15

What ligament parallels the vocal ligament but located more superiorly to it

Answer 15

Vestibular ligament

Question 16

Also called false vocal ligament

Answer 16

Vestibular ligament

Question 17

Another name for cricovocal ligament

Answer 17

Conus elasticus

Question 18

Opening between two vocal ligaments

Answer 18

Rima glottidis

Question 19

3 parts of the arytenoid cartilage

Answer 19

Vocal process
Muscular process
Apex

Question 20

What part moves laterally in the arytenoid cartilage

Answer 20

Muscular process

Question 21

Many muscles are attached to what process of the arytenoid cartilage

Answer 21

Muscular process

Question 22

All intrinsic muscles of the larynx are innervated by what except what

Answer 22

Recurrent laryngeal nerve except cricothyroid (innervated by external laryngeal nerve from vagus nerve)

Question 23

Produces high pitch sounds

Answer 23

External laryngeal nerve acting on cricothyroid

Question 24

What happens to vocal ligament when thyroarytenoid and vocalis muscle contracts

Answer 24

Relaxes the vocal ligament

Question 25

A muscle attached to muscular procees and posterior side of cricoid csrtilage

Answer 25

Posterior cricoarytenoid

Question 26

Muscle for breathing which abducts vocal folds

Answer 26

Posterior cricoarytenoids

Question 27

Action of lateral cricoarytenoids

Answer 27

Abducts vocal folds | Closing the rima glottidis

Question 28

Creates slide movement of arytenoid muscles. Sliding towards the middle Adduct arytenoid cartilages

Answer 28

Inter arytenoids

Question 29

Strobe lights used in laryngoscopy is called what

Answer 29

Stroboscopy

Question 30

Which recurrent laryngeal nerve passes around the arch of the aorta

Answer 30

Left recurrent laryngeal nerve

Question 31

If you were to fix a patent ductus arteriosus, what nerve will most likely be affected

Answer 31

Left recurrent laryngeal nerve

Question 32

What innervates the cricothyroid

Answer 32

External branch of the superior laryngeal nerve

Question 33

What produces high pitch sound

Answer 33

Cricothyroid muscle

Question 34

Sensory nerve to laryngopharynx

Answer 34

Internal branch of superior laryngeal nerve

Question 35

External branch innervates what (only 1 muscle)

Answer 35

Cricothyroid muscle

Question 36

Functions of larynx

Answer 36

Maintain stable patent airway Protect airway from aspiration Phonation