Week 4 Slides Flashcards
What is the muscular floor of the oral cavity formed by?
The Mylohyoid Muscle.
What do the side walls of the oral cavity consist of?
The mandible and cheek (buccinators).
The roof of the oral cavity is called the ______.
Palate.
What is the region between the gum and cheek known as?
The vestibule.
\name the 2 folds found within the oral cavity.
Palatoglossal Fold (anterior) Palatopharyngeal Fold (posterior)
There are 3 pairs of _________ _______.
Salivary Glands.
What fold is the palatoglossal fold anterior to?
Palatoglossal Fold is anterior to the palatopharyngeal fold.
Name the bone that is a horseshoe shape (found between the tongue and the larynx).
Hyoid Bone.
What does the hyoid bone do?
It stabilizes the muscles.
Name the 4 main muscles connected to they hyoid bone.
Genioglossus
Hyoglossus
Mylohyoid
Digastric
What is the most dominant feature of the oral cavity?
The tongue.
In general what is the role of the intrinsic muscles of the tongue?
To change the shape of the tongue.
Name the 4 exterior muscles of the tongue.
Genioglossus
Hyoglossus
Palatoglossus
Styloglossus
An example of an intrinsic muscle is the superior ______ muscle.
longitudinal
What is the mylohyoid an example of?
A suprahyoid muscle.
The genioglossus extends down toward the ______.
Mandible.
Name the tongue muscle:
- Pulls back/root of tongue towards front of mandible (forwards)
- Contraction then squeezes body of tongue upwards
Genioglossus
What main vowel sound does the Genioglossus help produce?
[i]
Name the tongue muscle:
Pulls tongue upwards and backwards.
Styloglossus
Name the tongue muscle:
Pulls tongue back and down.
Hyoglossus.
What muscles are used in the production of [ɔ] and [u]?
Styloglossus and Hyoglossus
There are many ways to make similar _____ to produce a target _______.
Movements, sound.
What is there a wide individual variation in?
How a speaker produces sounds (what muscles they use).
Name the anatomical name for the lower jaw.
Mandible.
Name the muscles of mastication (including the muscles mastication that are less involved in mastication).
- Temporalis
- Masseter
- External & Internal Pterygoid
- Digastric
- Geniohyoid
- Mylohyoid
What structure do the muscles of mastication move?
The mandible.
Name the main muscles of mastication that aid mandible movement.
- Temporalis
- Masseter
- External & Internal Pterygoid
Name the broad fan shaped muscle of mastication at the side of the head.
Temporalis
What is the role of the temporalis?
It lifts up the mandible (closing the mouth) and retracts the mandible.
What is the role of the masseter?
To elevate the mandible, raising the lower jaw.
What is the role of the exterior (lateral) Pterygoid?
To lower the mandible, this opens the jaw.
The contraction of the internal (medial) pterygoid ______________ (jaw closure) and ____________(protrusion).
Elevates the mandible
Moves the mandible forward.
Name the 3 muscles that aid the Exterior Pterygoid in lowering the mandible.
Digrastic
Geniohyoid
Mylohyoid
What muscle has 2 bellies?
The Digastric muscle
What is the bony section of the palate known as?
The hard palate
What does the Hard Palate consist of?
- Palatine process of maxilla
- Horizontal plates of palatine bone
The ____ palate can be referred to as the bony core.
Hard
The soft palate is _____ to the hard palate.
Posterior.
The soft palate is reffered to as the ____ core.
Muscular