Lesson 8 (Part 2)

Question 1

What does the thyroid cartilage form?

Answer 1

The anterior wall of the larynx

Question 2

What does the thyroid cartilage do?

Answer 2

Protects the vocal cords

Question 3

What is another word for the thyroid cartilage?

Answer 3

Adams apple

Question 4

Where is the thyroid cartilage located?

Answer 4

Mid anterior neck

Question 5

What is the thyroid cartilage an attachment site for?

Answer 5

Laryngeal muscles

Question 6

Where is the location of the thyroid cartilage compared to the thyroid gland?

Answer 6

Superior to it

Question 7

Is thyroid cartilage visible on ultrasound?

Answer 7

No

Question 8

What is the largest gland in the neck?

Answer 8

Thyroid gland

Question 9

Where is the thyroid gland located?

Answer 9

On the anterior aspect, and is deep to the skin and muscle layer

Question 10

What is the shape of the thyroid gland?

Answer 10

Butterfly shaped

Question 11

What do the wings of the butterfly shaped thyroid gland represent?

Answer 11

The right and left lobes of the gland what wrap around the trachea

Question 12

What does the isthmus connect for the thyroid gland?

Answer 12

The right and left lobes

Question 13

What drapes along the midline of the thyroid gland?

Answer 13

The isthmus

Question 14

What is another word for isthmus?

Answer 14

Body

Question 15

What is another word for the trachea?

Answer 15

Windpipe

Question 16

Where are pyramidal lobes sometimes seen on the thyroid gland?

Answer 16

On the superior aspect of both of its lobes

Question 17

Where does the thyroid gland project? (2)

Answer 17

1. Superiorly from the isthmus level

2. Inferior to the hyoid bone

Question 18

How many parathyroid glands are there?

Answer 18

4

Question 19

Parathyroid gland

Answer 19

Are 4 small glands on the posterior aspect of the thyroid gland

Question 20

When are parathyroid glands visible?

Answer 20

When they are enlarged

Question 21

Where is the thyroid gland located compared to the sternocleidomastoid and strap muscles?

Answer 21

Posterior to it

Question 22

Where is the thyroid gland located compared to the carotid and internal jugular vein?

Answer 22

Medial to it

Question 23

Where does the trachea lay? (3)

Answer 23

1. Posterior to the isthmus of the thyroid gland
2. Medial to both lobes- midline structure
3. Anterior to the esophagus

Question 24

Is the trachea seen on an ultrasound?

Answer 24

No

Question 25

Why isnt the trachea seen on an ultrasound?

Answer 25

Because it is filled with air

Question 26

What are the only landmarks for the trachea on the ultrasound?

Answer 26

The shadowing from the trachea

Question 27

Cricoid cartilage

Answer 27

Circular vertebrae

- circular shaped

Question 28

What does the cricoid cartilage allow?

Answer 28

Movement of food

Question 29

Where is the cricoid cartilage compared to the thyroid gland and cartilage? (2)

Answer 29

1. Inferior to the thyroid cartilage

2. Superior to the thyroid gland

Question 30

Where does the esophagus lay compared to the trachea?

Answer 30

Posterior and slightly left lateral to the trachea

Question 31

Where does the esophagus lay compared to the left thyroid lobe?

Answer 31

Inferior and medial

Question 32

Why is the esophagus not asses on an ultrasound?

Answer 32

Because it is filled with air

Question 33

What does the esophagus serve as?

Answer 33

A landmark