Larynx, Orbit reminders

Question 1

What muscle increases pitch and how?

Answer 1

Cricothyroid increases pitch by elongating/tensing the vocal cords

Question 2

What muscle decreases pitch and how?

Answer 2

Thyroarytenoid decreases pitch by adducting/relaxing the vocal cords

Question 3

Main muscle that adducts the vocal cords?

Answer 3

Lateral cricoarytenoid adducts the vocal cords

Question 4

Transverse arytenoid

Answer 4

adducts arytenoid cartilage

Question 5

sphincter of the laryngeal inlet

Answer 5

Oblique arytenoid

Question 6

Cough reflex

Answer 6

Vagus nerve

Question 7

Which common carotid comes directly off the aortic arch instead of the subclavian?

Answer 7

Left common carotid comes right off the aortic arch

Question 8

Main blood supply to the parathyroid?

Answer 8

Inferior thyroid artery from thyrocervical trunk

Question 9

Which recurrent laryngeal loops under the subclavian?

Answer 9

Right recurrent

Question 10

Lymphatic drainage of teh posterior eye

Answer 10

deep parotid/preauricular

Question 11

Retropharyngeal nodes drain