Anatomy A
Anatomy B
Anatomy C
Cleft Palate 1
Cleft Palate 2
100

What shapes phonation noise from larynx into speech?

What is the articulatory system?

100

What is the name of the structure that hangs in the back of your throat?

What is the uvula?

100

What is the primary function of the tongue?

What is taste and move food around?

100

What is a cleft palate?

What is a hole in the roof of your mouth?

100

Cleft palate only more common in girls or boys?

What is more common in girls?

Cleft lip and/or palate – 2x as many males

200
  • Pharynx (throat)

  • Oral cavity

  • Nasal cavity



What make up the Vocal Tract?

200

What happens when velum/soft palate is lowered?

What is it opens passageway to nose?

200

What are the seconadry functions of the tongue?

What are resonance of the voice and sound articulation?

200

Type of cleft that is one side All the way through lip, hard and soft palates

What is unilateral cleft of the lip and palate?

200

What races have the highest incidence of clefts?

Who are Native Americans and Asian Americans?

300

What forms the floor of the mouth?

What is the jaw/mandible?

300

What happenes when the velum/soft palate is raised?

What is it closes nasal from oral passage way?

300

What are the primary and secondary functions of the teeth?

Primary function – mastication

Secondary function – contact point for certain speech sounds

    /f/, /v/, “th”

300
  • Most severe

  • Lip, hard, and soft palates on both sides

What is the bilateral cleft lip and palate?

300

When is the earliest we can detect a cleft?

What is occurs 5-12 weeks after gestation?

400

What are the structures that modify the air for speech production?

What are 

  • Jaw (mandible)

  • Palate

  • Tongue

  • Teeth

  • Lips

  • Cheek muscles

400

Velum position is raised and Muscles of pharynx (throat) contract  to meet velum



What is velopharyngeal closure?

400

What is malocclusion?

What is an abnormal bite (where dental arches meet)?

400

Uvula is not fused into one structure

What is a bifid uvula?

400

What are the 5 embryonic processes that need to fuse together?

What are the right and left mandibular processes,frontonasal process, and 2 maxillary processes?

500

What is the main and secondary function of the jaw?

What is chewing (primary) and speech (secondary)?

500

Why is Velopharyngeal closure important for speech production?

What is most speech sounds are oral air escape only

and in English – 3 speech sounds include air in nasal cavity? (m, n, ng)

500

What are the muscles of the lips and cheeks?

Orbicularis oris –  muscle that comprises the lips

Buccinator – large flat muscle that comprises the cheeks



500
  • Covered by tissue, diagnosed later

What is a submucous cleft?

500

What are two syndromes associated with clefts?

What are Pierre Robin Syndrome/Sequence and Patau's Syndrome or Trisomy 13?