Speech Pathology: Anatomy and Physiology- Updated Exam Questions and 100% Correct Answers

Speech Pathology: Anatomy and Physiology- Updated
Exam Questions and 100% Correct Answers
3 tonsils

1. Palatal

2. Pharyngeal

3. Laryngeal

Function of the soft palate for nasal sounds (i.e., velopharyngeal port)

This opens to create a pathway to the nasal cavity to produce nasals and help them resonate

Articulate facets on the cricoid

Upper One: Arytenoids

Lower One : Inferior Horns

Adduction

Closing of vocal folds

Abduction

Opening of vocal folds

Glottis

Is the space created by the vocal folds

cricothyroid muscle

Is located between the cricoid and thyroid cartilages

underneath the inferior horns of the thyroid

, The major cranial nerve for learyngeal innervation.

CNX : Vagus

6 laryngeal cartilages

1. Thyroid

2. Epiglottis

3. Cricoid

4. Corniculated

5. Arytenoid

6. Cuneiform

3 planes

Sagittal

Transverse/ Axial

Coronal

Sagittal

.left and right sides

Coronal

front and back sections

Axial

upper and lower sections

lateral