General Terms
The plane of reference for something cut into left and right parts.
What is sagittal?
This structure has a manubrium and xiphoid process.
What is the sternum?
The larynx is suspended in the next from this bone.
What is the hyoid?
The bone know as the major cheek bone in the facial skeleton.
What is the zygomatic bone?
Earrings are often found in this non-cartilaginous landmark of the pinna.
What is the lobe/lobule?
Term used to describe a layer underneath another.
What is deep?
The major muscle of inspiration.
What is the diaphragm?
The cartilage where the vocal folds attach anteriorly.
What is the thyroid cartilage?
The type of tooth that erupts last in both the deciduous and permanent arches.
What are the molars?
The concha is located in this bone.
What is the temporal bone?
The type of tissue that can contract.
The tissue that surrounds the lungs.
What is pleura?
The entrance into the larynx from the phyarnx.
What is the aditus laryngis?
The muscle that narrows the tongue upon contraction.
What is the transverse tongue muscle?
The structure that runs from the middle ear to the pharynx.
A medical abbreviation referring to the mouth.
What is the prefix oro-?
The explanation for how pressure and volume are related during respiration.
What is Boyle's Law?
This muscle abducts the vocal folds.
What is the PCA or posterior cricoarytenoid muscle?
The unique result of filtering air through cavities in the vocal tract during the production of phonemes.
What is resonant frequency?
This inner ear houses these 2 sensory systems.
What are balance and hearing?
The study of the function of a living organism and its parts.
What is physiology?
The amount of air exchanged in a single respiratory cycle.
What is tidal volume?
The term describing the inferior-superior pattern for how the glottis closes during a phonatory cycle.
What is the vertical phase difference?
The muscle that elevates the soft palate to separate the nasal and oral cavities.
What is the levator veli palatini?
The cranial nerve that receives input related to sound and balance.
What is the vestibulocochlear nerve (CN VII)?