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