Questions and CORRECT Answers
Nares - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- external opening to nose
choanae - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- openings to pharynx
nasal septum - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- dividing nasal cavity into right and left parts
Deviated nasal septum - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- septum bulges to one side
hard palate - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- forms floor for nasal palate, dividing into right and
lefts parts
Conchae - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- bony ridges
Paranasal sinuses - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- air filled spaces within bpme
nasolacrimal ducts - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- carry tears from the eyes
sneeze reflex - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- dislodged foreign substance from the nasal cavity
soft palate - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- incomplete muscle separating nasopharynx from
oropharynx... forms floor for nasopharynx
nasopharynx - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- superior part of pharynx
uvula - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- posterior extension of the soft palate
oropharynx - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- uvula to epiglottis , food drink pass thro
, laryngopharynx - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- passes posterior to the larynx, extends from tip
of epiglottis ..food passes to epiglottis
Thyriod cartilage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- adams apple
larynx - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- anterior throat ... passage way for air between pharynx
and trachea
cricoid cartilage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- forms base of larynx
epiglottis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- unpaired cartilage, flap, helps prevents swallowing
material from entering the larynx
Six paired of cartilage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- cuneiform cartilage, corniculate cartilage,
arytenoid cartilage
2 pairs of ligaments - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- vestibular folds: false vocal cords... vocal
cords: true vc
vestibular folds - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- prevent air from leaving the lungs
laryngitis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- inflammation of mucous epithelium of the vocal core
trachea - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- membranous tube attache for the larynx, connective
tissue and smooth muscle, 16-20 C shapes pieces of hyaline cartilage , lined with
pseudotratified columnar epithelium with cilia and goblet cells
Hyaline cartilage of trachea function - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- protect the trachea and
maintain an open passageway for air