Paired layngeal cartilages Flashcards
What is the largest cartilage of the larynx?
Thyroid cartilage
What horns articulate with the hyoid bone through lateral thyrohyoid ligament?
Superior
What horns articulate with the cricoid cartilage at the ‘facet for the thyroid’ forming the cricothyroid joint
?
Inferior horns
The thyroid ______/_______ forward and backward at the cricothyroid joint changing the VF length/tension
tilts/rocks
the vocals folds attach to the _______ cartilage anteriorly and posteriorly to the _________ cartilage
Thyroid, arytenoid
The _________ portion of the cricoid cartilage arches up
Posterior
What is the motion of the cricothyroid joint?
rotation of cricoid and thyroid
both cartilages rotate some
What are the two important articulation facets on the cricoid cartilage?
cricothyroid
cricoarytenoid
