Voice

Question 1

When are the false folds used?

Answer 1

during lifting and coughing, not speech

Question 2

Where do the aryepiglottic folds lie and what do they do?

Answer 2

above ventricular folds, seperating the pharynx and laryngeal vestibule, help preserve the airway

Question 3

What innervates the posterior belly of digastric?

Answer 3

Facial nerve

Question 4

What innervates the cricothyoid?

Answer 4

superior laryngeal nerve of vagus

Question 5

What innervated the other laryngeal muscles?

Answer 5

recurrent laryngeal nerve of vagus

Question 6

What is the vascular supply to the larynx?

Answer 6

superior laryngeal, cricothyroid, and inferior laryngeal arteries

Question 7

What are infrahyoids?

Answer 7

thyrohyoid, omohyoid, sternothyroids, sternohyoids.

Question 8

What are suprahyoids?

Answer 8

digastrics, geniohyoids, mylohyoids, stylhyoids, genioglossus, hyoglossus

Question 9

What is MFF of 7-8, 9-10 year olds?

Answer 9

281-297, 238-270

Question 10

What is MFF of nineteen year olds?

Answer 10

217 female, 117 male

Question 11

What is the MFF for men and women?

Answer 11

100-150, 180-250 (125 & 225)

Question 12

What is MPT for adults?

Answer 12

20.0-24.6 sec

Question 13

What are age related changes to the voice?

Answer 13

hardening of laryngeal cartilages, degeneration and atrophy of laryngeal muscles, degenrative changes in lamina propria, deterioration of cricoarytenoids and conus elasticus

Question 14

What is presbyphonia?

Answer 14

age-related voice disorder characterized by perceptual changes in quality, range, loudness, and pitch

Question 15

How is pitch detemined?

Answer 15

By mass, tension, and elasticity of the vocal folds. A high pitch has thinner, more tense vocal folds. A lower pitch has thicker more relaxed folds.

Question 16

What is jitter?

Answer 16

variation in vocal frequency often heard in dysphonic patients. Less than 1% jitter is normal

Question 17

What is shimmer?

Answer 17

variation in loudness.

Question 18

Why are measures of jitter and shimmer useful?

Answer 18

the can assist in early detection of vocal pathology

Question 19

How does a hoarse voice typically sound?

Answer 19

breathy, low-pitched, adn husky. Also there are pitch breaks and excessive throat clearing. Hoarseness results from irregular vocal fold virbations

Question 20

What is strain-strangle?

Answer 20

effortful phonation, patient sounds like they are squeezing voice at glottal level, talking fatigues patients

Question 21

What is breathiness?

Answer 21

results from the vocal folds being slightly open. Due to organic or inorganic causes, SOFT WITH LITTLE VARIATION IN LOUDNESS. pATIENTS SHOW RESTRICTED VOCAL RANGE.