Larynx: Cartilages

Question 1

What are the cartilages that are associated with the larynx?

Answer 1

1) Thyroid Cartilage
2) Cricoid Cartilage
3) Epiglottic Cartilage
4) Arytenoid Cartilage
5) Corniculate Cartilage
6) Cuneiform Cartilage

Question 2

What is the feature that is seen on the most superior, anterior aspect of the thyroid cartilage?

Answer 2

Superior Thyroid Notch

Question 3

What is the area of the thyroid cartilage that is directly attached to the greater horn of the hyoid bone?

Answer 3

Superior Horn

Question 4

What is the anterior-median elevation on the thyroid cartilage?

Answer 4

Laryngeal Prominence

Question 5

What is the common name of the Laryngeal Prominence?

Answer 5

Adam’s Apple

Question 6

What is the name of the flat, broad area bilateral to the laryngeal prominence on the thyroid cartilage?

Answer 6

Lamina

Question 7

what is the part of the thyroid cartilage that is is direct contact with the cricoid cartilage?

Answer 7

Inferior Horn

Question 8

What is the part of the thyroid cartilage that serves as a direct muscle attachment?

Answer 8

Oblique line

Question 9

What are the muscles that directly attach to the oblique line of the thyroid cartilage?

Answer 9

1) Inferior Constrictor
2) Sterothyroid
3) Thyrohyoid

Question 10

Which if the two thyroid notches are less defined?

Answer 10

Inferior notch

Question 11

Cricoid means…

Answer 11

ring

Question 12

What is the general shape of the cricoid cartilage?

Answer 12

a singlet ring, wide in the back, skinny in the front

Question 13

What is the most inferior of the laryngeal cartilages?

Answer 13

Cricoid cartilage

Question 14

At what level does the cricoid cartilage lie?

Answer 14

C6

Question 15

What is the narrow, anterior part of the cricoid cartilage?

Answer 15

Arch

Question 16

What is the broad, posterior area of the cricoid cartilage?

Answer 16

Lamina

Question 17

What is the spoon-like cartilage that lies behind the root of the hyoid bone?

Answer 17

Epiglottic Cartilage

Question 18

Where is the lower end of the epiglottic cartilage attached?

Answer 18

The back (posterior aspect) of the laryngeal prominence of the thyroid cartilage

Question 19

What is the piece of connective tissue that links the epiglottic cartilage of the thyroid cartilage?

Answer 19

Thyroepiglottic Ligament

Question 20

What are the pyramidal shaped, paired cartilages that are articulated with the cricoid cartilage?

Answer 20

Arytenoid Carilages

Question 21

What is the part of the arytenoid cartilages that gives the attachment site for the vocal ligament?

Answer 21

Vocal Process

Question 22

What is the part of the arytenoid cartilage that gives the attachment site for the intrinsic muscles of the larynx?

Answer 22

Muscular Process

Question 23

Which of the processes of the arytenoid cartilages projects anterior (forward)?

Answer 23

Vocal Process

Question 24

Which process of the arytenoid cartilages projects posterior and lateral?

Answer 24

Muscular Process

Question 25

Whcih of the “vocal cords” does the vocal process attach to?

Answer 25

Vocal Folds (true vocal cords)

Question 26

What is the vocal ligament?

Answer 26

The actual vibrating part of the vocal folds

Question 27

What are the cartilages which are suspended within the vocal fold and are vestigial of the embryological pharyngeal arches?

Answer 27

1) Corniculate Cartilage

2) Cuneiform Cartilage

Question 28

Which of the “floating cartilages” are found within the apex of the corresponding arytenoid cartilage and are closed within the aryepiglottic folds?

Answer 28

Cornicuate Cartilage

Question 29

Which of the “floating cartilages” is found in the aryepiglottic fold anterior to the corniculate cartilages?

Answer 29

Cuneiform Cartilage