Lecture 17

Question 1

What are the two sections of the supraglottic airway?

Answer 1

1) respiratory tract

2) alimentary tract

Question 2

What are the biological functions of the respiratory tract

Answer 2

Filters, warms, and moistens incoming air

Question 3

What are the biological functions of the alimentary tract?

Answer 3

Provide nourishment: chewing/mastication and swallowing/degluttition

Question 4

What is dysphagia?

Answer 4

Problems with swallowing

Question 5

What is odyhophagia?

Answer 5

Pain during swallowing

Question 6

What are the 2 speech functions of the supraglottic airway?

Answer 6

1) resonance

2) articulation

Question 7

What are the 5 vocal tract cavities?

Answer 7

1) pharyngeal cavity
2) oral cavity
3) nasal cavities
4) paranasal sinuses
5) buccal cavity

Question 8

What is the largest vocal tract cavity?

Answer 8

Pharyngeal cavity

Question 9

Where is the pharyngeal cavity located?

Answer 9

Back of the throat

Question 10

Where is the oral cavity located?

Answer 10

Mouth

Question 11

Where are the nasal cavities located?

Answer 11

Nose

Question 12

Where are the paranasal sinuses located?

Answer 12

In the skull (empty spaces)

Question 13

Where is the buccal cavity located?

Answer 13

Between cheek/lips and teeth/gums

Question 14

What are the 3 sections of the pharyngeal cavity?

Answer 14

1) laryngopharynx
2) oropharynx
3) nasopharynx

Question 15

What are the boundaries of the laryngopharynx?

Answer 15

Larynx to hyoid bone

Question 16

What are the boundaries of the oropharynx?

Answer 16

Hyoid to soft palate

Question 17

What are the boundaries of the nasopharynx?

Answer 17

Soft palate/velum to base of the skull

Question 18

What are 4 major structures of the pharyngeal cavity?

Answer 18

1) Eustachian tube
2) pharyngeal recess
3) torus tubarius
4) salingophraryngeal fold

Question 19

The pharyngeal cavity is bounded posteriorly by the ________ ________

Answer 19

Cervical vertebrae

Question 20

What is the function of the pharyngeal cavity?

Answer 20

Changes shape/size during speech

Question 21

What parts of the pharyngeal cavity constricts for high vowel and for low vowels?

Answer 21

High vowels = upper levels

Low vowels = lower levels

Question 22

What is the torus tubarius?

Answer 22

Ring of cartilage that surrounds the opening to the Eustachian tube

Question 23

Where is the opening of the Eustachian tube?

Answer 23

At the torus tubarius

Question 24

Where does the Eustachian tube run to and from?

Answer 24

From the nasopharynx to the middle ear cavity

Question 25

What is another name of the pharyngeal recess?

Answer 25

Fossa of rosenmuller

Question 26

What is the pharyngeal recess?

Answer 26

Deep recess/grove behind the torus tubarius

Question 27

What is the salpingopharyngeal fold?

Answer 27

Fold of tissue that extends inferiorly belong the torus tubarius

Question 28

The torus tubarius is continuous with the _____________ ____

Answer 28

Salpingopharyngeal fold

Question 29

Behind the torus tubarius is the _________ _____

Answer 29

Pharyngeal recess

Question 30

What are the 5 main structures/structure pairs of the oral cavity?

Answer 30

1) hard palate 2) soft palate 3) anterior faucial pillar and palatoglossus 4) posterior faucial pillar and pallatopharyngus 5) faucial isthmus and palatine tonsils

Question 31

What are the two structures on the hard palate?

Answer 31

1) rugae | 2) median raphe

Question 32

What are the two structures on the soft palate

Answer 32

1) velum | 2) uvula

Question 33

What is the function of the oral cavity?

Answer 33

Changes considerably during speech and is very important for it

Question 34

What is the structure that starts at the uvula/velum and runs anteriorly and inferiorly to the tongue?

Answer 34

Anterior faucial pillar

Question 35

What is the structure that starts at the soft palate and rinds down to the pharynx?

Answer 35

Posterior faucial pillar

Question 36

Which muscle runs within the anterior faucial pillar?

Answer 36

Palatoglossis

Question 37

Which muscle runes within the posterior faucial pillar?

Answer 37

Palatopharyngus

Question 38

What is the space between the faucial pillars called?

Answer 38

Faucial isthmus

Question 39

Where are the palatine tonsils located?

Answer 39

Faucial isthmus

Question 40

What are the 4 major structures of the nasal cavity?

Answer 40

1) choanae 2) chonchae/turbinates (and their meatuses) 3) midline nasal septum 4) mucosa

Question 41

What is the choanae?

Answer 41

The entrance to the pharynx from the nasal cavity

Question 42

What are the three nasal conchae?

Answer 42

1) superior 2) middle 3) inferior

Question 43

What is mucosa?

Answer 43

Mucous membrane that covers structures in the nasal cavities

Question 44

What is the function of the nasal cavities?

Answer 44

Transmits energy during nasal speech sounds

Question 45

What are the 4 paranasal sinuses?

Answer 45

1) maxillary sinus 2) sphenoidal sinus 3) ethmoidal sinus 4) frontal sinus

Question 46

What are the 2 functions of the paranasal sinuses?

Answer 46

1) communicate with nasal sinuses | 2) can influence speech sounds through resonance

Question 47

What is the largest paranasal sinus?

Answer 47

Maxillary sinus

Question 48

What is the buccal cavity?

Answer 48

The small space between lips/cheeks and gums/teeth