TVF's

Question 1

What opens and closes the TVF’s??

Answer 1

Muscles attached to the arytenoid cartilages- posterior cricoarytenoid muscles open and lateral crcoarytenoid help close

Question 2

What is the space between TVF’s?

Answer 2

Glottis

Question 3

Name onset’s / offsets

Answer 3

Glottal
Smooth
Aspirate abrupt
Aspirate gradual

Question 4

Describe Glottal onset

Answer 4

TVF’s close before exhalation begins

Question 5

Describe aspirate onset’s ?

Answer 5

Aspirate exhalation begins before TVF’s close (abruptly or gradually

Question 6

Describe smooth onset?

Answer 6

Exhalation and TVF movement occur simultaneously