*Which muscle contributes to bulk of vocal folds?
-vocalis/thyroarytenoid
*How many breaths per minute does an adult intake at rest?
-12 to 18 cycles
*When the diaphragm contracts it is pulled in what direction?
INFERIOR (DOWN)
*What do you need to do to VF stiffness to increase pitch?
-Increase stiffness
*Which joints sit atop of the cricoids cartilage? little arytnoids –cricoarytenoids
*Volume of air exchanged in one cycle of respiration?
-tidal volume
*When you look inside the vertebral foramen what do you see?
-spinal cord
*What attaches muscle(cartilage) to bone?
-tendons
*what law states that the pressure can go from high to low?
*What portion of the anterior velum does it attach to?
-horizontal plate of palatine bone
*What are the percentages of inspiratory and expiratory phases?
Percentages during speech:
10% , 90%
Percentages: during quiet tidal breathing:
40%, 60%
*The vocal folds are superior or inferior to the false folds (ventricular folds)?
*if the accessory muslces of espiration contract chest cavity, volume? decreases *Pars recta is part of the crycothyroid muscle pg193
*The spinous process of vertebrae is located on?
-The back (posterior)
*what is the outermost layer of the vocal folds?
-epithelial
*what is the innermost layer of the vocal folds?
-thyrovocalis
*which muscle provides the most anterior posterior against post pharyngeal wall that lifts the velum?
-levator veli palitini
*during regular phonation vf open&closes?
-bottom to top
*Burnoulli effect states that there is constriction of air flow , @the point of constriction the air flow decreases and velocity increases
*which structures comprise the nasal septum?
-vomer and perpendicular plate of ethmoid
*to what part of the vertebrae do the ribs attach to?
-thoracic
*how many ribs do we have?
12 pairs of ribs (24)
*which type of joint contains lubricating substance?
-synovial joint