Cartilage
This is the largest cartilage in the larynx.
What is the thyroid cartilage?
This is the medial muscle of the vocal folds.
What is the thyrovocalis muscle?
What is the thyroid notch?
The suprahyoid muscles are _______ to the hyoid bone.
What is superior?
This is the only bone to help make up the larynx.
What is the hyoid bone?
True vocal folds attach to this cartilage.
What is Arytenoid?
The muscles responsible for fine motor movements of phonation.
What are the intrinsic muscles?
This is the term that refers to the space in between the vocal folds.
What is glottis?
The trachea is _______ to the larynx.
What is inferior?
What is three?
This is the most inferior cartilage of the larynx.
What is cricoid cartilage?
The Thyrovocalis muscle attaches to this process of the arytenoid cartilage.
What is vocal?
This joint aids in pushing the thyroid front and back.
What is the cricothyroid joint?
The infrahyoid muscles are _______ to the hyoid bone.
What is inferior?
The number of unpaired cartilages in the larynx.
What is three?
The cartilage that articulates with the thyroid cartilage.
What is the cricoid cartilage?
The extrinsic muscles that are above the hyoid.
What are suprahyoid muscles?
This joint aids in the movement of the arytenoids and allows for fine motor movements.
What is the cricoarytenoid joint?
This is the direction that the omohyoid moves the larynx.
What is depress?
This is the primary biological function of the larynx.
What is protect the airway when eating?
The vocal folds attach to these paired cartilages.
What is the arytenoids?
These are the four functions of phonation muscles.
What is abductor, adductor, tensors and relaxers?
This is a leaf shaped cartilage that is attached to the interior of the thyroid.
What is the epiglottis?
The thyrovocalis is ___________ to the thyromuscularis.
What is medial?
This is the type of structure the trachea can be descibed as.
What is musculo-cartilagenous?