Joints
Amphiarthrodial joints found between the bones of the skull
What are sutures?
The primary muscle of inhalation
What is the diaphragm?
The hardest connective tissue
What are bones?
When the volume of a container of air increases, the air pressure within the container drops
What is Boyle's law?
Unpaired cartilages of the larynx
What are the thyroid and cricoid?
Inferior hinge joint
What is the knee?
Posterior thoracic muscle of exhalation
Serratus Posterior Inferior
What is rib 6?
The term used to describe how the lungs are connected to the wall of the thorax?
What is pleural linkage?
Creates a vacuum space between the vocal folds after exhaled air moves through
What is the Bernoulli effect?
The point where the 2 pubic bones meet
What is the pubic symphysis?
These muscles are responsible for elevating the rib cage for forceful exhalation
What are the external intercostals?
What is muscle tissue?
Uses 20-25% of a person's vital capacity
What is speech breating?
The 2 processes on the arytenoid cartilages
What are the vocal process and muscular process?
Created by C1 and C2
What is the pivot joint?
Posterior muscle of inhalation with a brevis and longis portion
What is levatores costarum?
An abdominal parallel muscle used for exhalation
What is the rectus abdominus?
The largest capacity of respiration
What is the total lung capacity?
The laryngeal joint formed by the thyroid and cricoid cartilages
What is the cricothyroid joint?
The cricoarytenoid joint is this type of joint
What is diarthrodial?
This convergent muscle of inhalation originates along the sternum and clavicle and inserts into the humerus
What is pectoralis major?
Muscle action when two structures move toward one another
What is adduction?
Air available for use for life and speech
What is vital capacity?
Small cartilages that are superior to and attached to the arytenoids
What are corniculate cartilages?