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✅Oral Cavity Review Flashcards

1
Q

What are the side walls made up of?

A

Mandible and cheek, containing buccinator

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2
Q

What is the muscular floor formed by?

A

Mylohyoid muscle

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3
Q

What is the roof of the oral cavity?

A

Palate

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4
Q

What is the region between gum and cheek?

A

Vestibule

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5
Q

How many pairs of salivary glands?

A

3

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6
Q

What is the palatoglossal fold?

A

Anterior to palatophyaryngeal fold

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7
Q

What is the hyoid bone?

A

A horseshoe shape bone that is a digastric muscles

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8
Q

What is the hyoid bone connected to?

A

Genioglossus
Hyoglossus
Mylohyoid

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9
Q

What do the suprahyoids do?

A

They connect to hyoid to the upper region of the oral cavity

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10
Q

What does the hyoid bone do?

A

Stabilises attached muscles

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11
Q

What are the muscles of the tongue?

A 
Superior longitudinal muscle
Genioglossus
Palatoglossus
Styloglossus
Hyoglossus
hyoid
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12
Q

How does the genioglossus help vowel production?

A

Pulls back/root of tongue towards front of mandible.

Contraction then squeezes body of tongue upwards

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13
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How does the Styloglossus help vowel production?

A

Pulls tongue upwards & backwards

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14
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How does the Hyoglossus help vowel production?

A

Pulls tongue back & down

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15
Q

There are many ways to make similar movements.

T or F?

A

True

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16
Q

What are the key muscles used with the mandible?

A 
Temporalis
Masseter 
External and internal 
Pterygoid 
Diagstric 
Geniohyoid 
Mylohyoid
17
Q

What are the two sections of the hard palate?

A

-Palatine processes of maxilla

•Horizontal plates of palatine

18
Q

What are the Two sections of the palate

A 
Anterior Hard Palate (bone core)
Soft palate ( muscle core)
19
Q

What does the levator do?

A

Lifts the soft palate up towards nasal cavity

20
Q

What does the tensor palatini do?

A

It tenses up the side of the soft palate

21
Q

What do the plataglossus and palatopharyngeus do?

A

The help pull the soft palate down toward the tongue

22
Q

How can you alter the shape of pharynx during speech?

A

Movement of the tongue

Movement of larynx

23
Q

What are the superior constrictors?

A

Narrow upper walls of pharynx (naso & oro)

24
Q

What are middle constrictors?

A

Moves hyoid, narrow pharynx (naso + oro)

25
Q

What are interior constrictors?

A

Narrow lower walls of pharynx (laryngo)

26
Q

What three circular muscles narrow the pharyngeal tube?

A

SUPERIOR CONSTRICTORS
MIDDLE CONSTRICTORS
INFERIOR CONSTRICTORS

27
Q

What 2 longitudinal muscles draw up the walls of pharynx?

A

STYLOPHARYNGEUS

SALPINGOPHARYNGEUS

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