MG
Neuromuscular junction disorder characterized by fluctuating weakness and easy fatigability of muscles
What is Myasthenia Gravis?
These 2 facial bones of the skull are unpaired
What is vomer and mandible?
This muscular hydrostat has a soft skeleton.
What is the tongue?
What are the intrinsic muscles of the tongue?
Tool used by otolaryngologist and SLP to perform a nasopharyngoscopic evaluation
What is Fiber optic nasopharyngoscope?
4 sinuses that that surround and extend from the nasal cavities
What are Paranasal Sinuses?
These are sonorant sounds that are vowel like in nature.
What are Diphthongs?
This muscle originates from the fossa of the maxilla and inserts into the back part of the ala and cartilaginous septum of the outer nose.
What is the Depressor Alae Nasi?
Myasthenia Gravis patients have this type of dysarthria due to muscle weakness
What is Flaccid Dysarthria?
Thin structure is located at the side of the outer nose between the orbit of the eye and the upper lip
What is the levator labii superioris alaque nasi muscle?
Theories that reject the ideas of phonemes and their translation to speech motor behavior
What is articulatory phonology or gesture theories?
When pharyngeal attachment of this muscle is relatively fixed, contraction of its fibers places a downward and backward pull on the velum.
What is the Pharyngopalatine Muscle?
The effects of this factor was not evaluated on the velopharyngeal mechanism
What is fatigue?
Narrow muscle that arises from the near lower border of the pharyngeal orifice of the auditory tube
What is the salpingopharyngeus muscle?
Physical structure is intact, but there is weakness or paralysis of the muscles making it difficult or impossible to close velopharyngeal port
What is Velopharyngeal Incompetence?
This term is another name for the palatal tensor muscle.
What is the Tensor Veli Palatini Muscle?
The velopharyngeal closure pattern primarily seen in all 3 study groups
What is coronal closure pattern?
True or False: Gender plays a clear influence on velopharyngeal - nasal function for speech production
Is it false?
This ____ occurs when the articulatory characteristics of an upcoming sound influence the characteristics of a currently produced sound
What is forward co - articulation/right to left co -articulation/anticipatory articulation?
Only intrinsic muscle of the velum (both ends of its fibers are within the velum)