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What type of joints link the cartilages of the larynx?
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What type muscle (smooth, skeletal or cardiac) are the intrinsic muscles of the larynx?
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Name the cartilages of the larynx?
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- Throid
- Cricoid
- Arytenoid
- Epiglottic
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Which cartilage is made out of elastic cartilage?
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What type of cartilage are the other cartilages of the larynx?
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What are the vocal folds and vestibular folds made from?
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What does the cricothyroid muscle do?
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- Moves cricoid and arytenoid cartilages caudally
- Tenses vocal folds
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What does the dorsal cricothyroid muscle do?
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- Abducts vocal folds
- Widens glottis
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What does the lateral cricothyroid muscle do?
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- Narrows the glottis
- Adducts vocal folds
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What is the innervation of the larynx?
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- Cranial laryngeal nerve (branch of the vagus (CN X)
- Caudal laryngeal nerve (branch of the vagus (CN X)
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What is the vasculature of the larynx?
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- Laryngeal branch of superior thyroid artery
- Laryngeal branch of inferior thyroid artery
- Laryngeal branch of cricoarytenoid artery
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Name two species which have very sensitive laryngeal mucosa
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True or false: Birds have an epiglottis
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