SLHS 3400 TEST QUESTIONS
By what fetal week do the laryngeal cartilages reach their adult shape? - Answer-9th fetal week
What is the difference between the external branch and the internal branch of the superior laryngeal branch? - Answer-The external branch is motor and the internal branch is sensory
What cartilage is the only cartilage of the phonatory system that won't ossify with age? - Answer-Epiglottas
Which of the following intrinsic muscles attach to the muscular process? - Answer-
Posterior Cricoarythenoid and Lateral Cricoarytenoid
Which of the following supplementary muscles would be expected to raise the hyoid bone in some capacity? - Answer-Posterior Belly, Stylohyoid, Geniohyoid
Which of the following does not differentiate from an older larynx from younger?
a. Vocal fold bowing
b. Prominence of the vocal process
c. Glottic proportions
d. Phase and amplitude symmetry of the mucosal wave
e. A larger thyroid lamina - Answer-A larger thyroid lamina
Which of the following are passive forces of the laryngeal apparatus? - Answer-Muscle recoil, surface tension, pull of gravity
Damage to which of the following is indicated by the absence of coughing? - Answer-
Superior Laryngeal Nerve
Select the Non-intrinsic muscles
1. Cricothyroid
2. Hyothyroid Membrane
3. Posterior Cricoarytenoid
4. Cricoid
5. Thyroarytenoid - Answer-2, 4
Which shape does the glottis first make in the phonation process? - Answer-Convergent
What is the deepest part of the vocal fold? - Answer-Thyroarytenoid
Whats the order of the following supplementary laryngeal muscles from superficial to deep - Answer-Anterior belly of digastric, mylohyoid, geniohyoid, genioglossus/hyoglossus
By what fetal week do the laryngeal cartilages reach their adult shape? - Answer-9th fetal week
What is the difference between the external branch and the internal branch of the superior laryngeal branch? - Answer-The external branch is motor and the internal branch is sensory
What cartilage is the only cartilage of the phonatory system that won't ossify with age? - Answer-Epiglottas
Which of the following intrinsic muscles attach to the muscular process? - Answer-
Posterior Cricoarythenoid and Lateral Cricoarytenoid
Which of the following supplementary muscles would be expected to raise the hyoid bone in some capacity? - Answer-Posterior Belly, Stylohyoid, Geniohyoid
Which of the following does not differentiate from an older larynx from younger?
a. Vocal fold bowing
b. Prominence of the vocal process
c. Glottic proportions
d. Phase and amplitude symmetry of the mucosal wave
e. A larger thyroid lamina - Answer-A larger thyroid lamina
Which of the following are passive forces of the laryngeal apparatus? - Answer-Muscle recoil, surface tension, pull of gravity
Damage to which of the following is indicated by the absence of coughing? - Answer-
Superior Laryngeal Nerve
Select the Non-intrinsic muscles
1. Cricothyroid
2. Hyothyroid Membrane
3. Posterior Cricoarytenoid
4. Cricoid
5. Thyroarytenoid - Answer-2, 4
Which shape does the glottis first make in the phonation process? - Answer-Convergent
What is the deepest part of the vocal fold? - Answer-Thyroarytenoid
Whats the order of the following supplementary laryngeal muscles from superficial to deep - Answer-Anterior belly of digastric, mylohyoid, geniohyoid, genioglossus/hyoglossus
