quiz #4 Flashcards
What makes up the Anterior Cervical Triangle?
Base: mandible
lateral border: SCM
medial border: Midsagittal plane of the neck
What are the contents of the ACT?
Muscles, arteries, veins lymph nodes, viscera, thyroid, parathyroid
What makes up the Posterior Cervical Triangle?
Base: clavicle
Anterior Border: SCM (posterior border)
Posterior Border: Trapezius
Just inferior to where the pharynx splits into the trachea and the esophagus.
Voice production
Adam’s apple - formed by the thyroid cartilage
Larynx
Anterior to the trachea, inferior to the thyroid cartilage
thyroid gland
What is the trachea made up of?
Cartilaginous rings
One of the only bones in the body to not have direct contact with another bone and is in the anterior neck superior to the thyroid cartilage (part of the larynx)
hyoid bone
Name all 4 suprahyoid bones
1) Mylohyoid
2) Geniohyoid
3) Stylohyoid
4) Digastric
General action of suprahyoids
Elevate the hyoid bone with superior attachments are fixed.
Assist in depressing (lowering) the mandible with the hyoid is fixed.
Superior Attachment: mandible
Inferior Attachment: hyoid bone
Mylohyoid
Superior Attachment: mandible
Inferior Attachment: hyoid bone
Geniohyoid
Superior Attachment: Styloid process of the temporal bone (part of the skull)
Inferior Attachment: Hyoid bone
Stylohyoid
Superior Attachment: inferior border of the mandible
Inferior Attachment: intermediate tendon to hyoid
Digastric (anterior belly)
Superior Attachment: mastoid process
Inferior Attachment: intermediate tendon to hyoid
Digastric (posterior belly)
Name the 4 infrahyoid muscles
1) sternohyoid
2) sternothyroid
3) thyrohyoid
4) omohyoid