Larynx: Joints/Ligaments

Question 1

What is the synovial joint that is between the cricoid cartilage and the inferior horn of the thyroid cartilage?

Answer 1

Cricothyroid Joint

Question 2

What movement does the cricothyroid joint allow for?

Answer 2

Rotation of the thyroid cartilage around the horizontal axis

Question 3

What is the synovial joint between the cricoid cartilage and the base of the arytenoid cartilage?

Answer 3

Cricoarytenoid Joint

Question 4

What motion does the cricoarytenoid joint allow for?

Answer 4

Gliding and rotation of the arytenoid cartilages on the cricoid cartilage

Question 5

What is the sheet like ligament that extends from the thyroid cartilage to the hyoid bone?

Answer 5

Thyrohyoid Membrane

Question 6

What structures will pierce the thyrohyoid membrane?

Answer 6

1) Internal Laryngeal Nerve

2) Superior Laryngeal Vessels

Question 7

What is the ligament that extends from the arch of the cricoid cartilage to the thyroid cartilage?

Answer 7

Median Cricothyroid Ligamnet

Question 8

What is the conective tissue that extends from the thyroid cartilage in front to the vocal process of the arytenoid cartilage behind?

Answer 8

Vocal Ligament

Question 9

What is the fibroelastic membrane that extends upward from the cricoid cartilage to the vocal ligamnet?

Answer 9

Conus Elasticus

Question 10

What forms the free edge of the conus elasticus?

Answer 10

Vocal Ligamnet

Question 11

What connects the epiglottic cartilage to the arytnoid cartilage on either side?

Answer 11

Quadrangular Membrane

Question 12

What forms the superior margin of the quadrangular membrane?

Answer 12

Aryepiglottic ligamnet within the aryepiglottic fold

Question 13

What forms the inferior margin of the quadrangular membrane?

Answer 13

the vestibular ligamnet within the vestibular fold