Larynx

Question 1

What does laryngeal elevation do?

Answer 1

Closes the larynx

Question 2

What does alteration to the laryngeal diameter control?

Answer 2

Airflow for speech and raising intra- abdominal pressure

Question 3

How is it that men have deeper voices than women?

Answer 3

More prominent larynx due to decreased thyroid angle

Question 4

What is the name given to the membrane that spans the space between the upper edges of the thyroid lamina and superior horn to the upper edges of the body and greater horn of the hyoid

Answer 4

Thyrohyoid membrane

Question 5

What nerve supplies all the laryngeal muscles, bar the cricothyroid?

Answer 5

Recurrent laryngeal

Question 6

What is cricothyroid innervated by?

Answer 6

Superior laryngeal nerve

Question 7

Which group of nerves may be at risk during thyroid surgery?

Answer 7

Laryngeal nerves