Vocal Folds
The most superficial protective layer of the vocal folds
______ is a direct function of the amount of pressure exerted by the sound wave.
What is intensity?
The most inferior laryngeal cartilage.
What is the cricoid cartilage?
The “near-cousin” of coughing.
What is throat clearing?
Name of muscles that have one attachment on a non-laryngeal structure.
What are extrinsic laryngeal muscles?
_______ is achieved by placing and holding the vocal folds in the airstream in a manner that permits their physical aspects to interact with the airflow.
What is vocal fold vibration?
Frequency and period are in a(n) _______ relationship of each other.
Forms the union between the tongue and laryngeal structures.
What is the hyoid bone?
Coughing, throat clearing, swallowing, and abdominal fixation are all grouped under ______.
What is non-speech functions?
The structure which is suspended from a broad string of muscles.
What is the larynx?
The vocal folds are made up of
What are mucous membranes, connective tissue, and thyrovocalis muscles
The ______ layer (in the vocal folds) is .1mm thick, whereas the ______ layer (in the vocal folds) is 1-2mm thick.
What is squamous epithelium; intermediate lamina propria OR deep lamina propria?
How the trachea is able to attach to the larynx.
What is the cricotracheal ligament?
A type of attack that involves starting significant airflow before adducting the vocal folds.
What is a breathy vocal attack?
This provides an exquisite index of muscle tone and stability that requires instrumentation for measurement.
What is vocal jitter?
______ is the vocal attack in which expiration and vocal fold adduction occur simultaneously.
What is simultaneous vocal attack?
The minimum driving pressure of the vocal folds in modal phonation is approximately _____.
What is 3-5 cm H20 subglottal pressure?
The three paired cartilages.
What are arytenoid, corniculate, and cuneiform?
What is a glottal attack?
These muscles are the fine adjustments for phonation control.
What are intrinsic laryngeal muscles?
These two layers of tissue within the vocal folds combine to result in elasticity and strength.
What are the superficial lamina propria (SLP) & intermediate lamina propria (ILP)?
______ is the intensity of a signal as related to the amount of work it is doing, or the amount of energy flow per unit area. The unit is in _________.
What is power; watts per unit time?
In the vertical mode of phonation, the vocal folds open from ______ to ______ and close from ______ to _______.
What is inferior, superior; inferior, superior?
These two actions involve the adduction muscles: lateral cricoarytenoid, arytenoids, and thyrovocalis.
What are voluntary coughing and phonating?
These muscles raise/lower the larynx and change the length of the vocal folds.
What are the supra- and infra-hyoid muscles?