Anatomy of the Larynx

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What are the muscles that position the vocal folds in the midline during sound production? What are the specific actions of each muscle?

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What's this?

Vocal process of the arytenoid

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What's this?

1. Thyroarytenoid. -shortens and relaxes vocal ligament. 2. Lateral cricoarytenoid. -closes or adducts the vocal folds. 3. Interarytenoid muscle -closes inlet of the larynx
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What are these?

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Muscular process of the arytenoid What's this?

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What muscle moves the vocal folds apart?

Cricothyroid
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What's this?

Interarytenoid muscles Posterior cricoarytenoid muscle.

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What's this?

What muscles adjust the length and tension of the vocal folds? What innervates them? What do they attach to?

1. Vocalis (innervated by RLN) -derived from inner and deeper fibers of thyroarytenoid muscle 2. Cricothyroid (innervated by SLN) -attached to cricoid and thyroid cartilages -tilts the thyroid cartilage, increasing tension of vocal folds -important in high-pitch singing and pitch glide Lateral cricoarytenoid
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What's this?

Posterior cricoarytenoid muscle

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What's this?

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Where are the transverse and oblique arytenoid muscles? What do they do?

Pyriform sinus
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What's this?
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AKA interarytenoid muscles, they adduct the vocal folds Where is the cricothyroid muscle? What does it do? What is it innervated by?

vestibule of the larynx

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What's this? Pulls the cricoid and thyroid cartilages together anteriorly to increase the length and tension of the vocal folds. Innervated by the external branch of the superior laryngeal nerve.
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aryepiglottic fold
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What's this?

Where is the lateral cricoarytenoid muscle? What does it do? adducts the glottis by pulling the muscular process forward, rotating the vocal process medially

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Cuneiform tubercle of the arytenoid

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What's this?

Where is the thyroarytenoid muscle? What does it do? What are the two divisions?

Lateral cricoarytenoid.
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What's this?

Increases vocal fold tension, thickness, and stiffness by exerting anterior traction on the vocal process. Divisions are vocalis and lateral thyroarytenoid.

Corniculate tubercle of the arytenoid

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Where the corniculate tubercle of the arytenoid?

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Where's the vestibule?

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Where's the aryepiglottic fold?

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Where's the vocal process of the arytenoid?

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Where's the cuneiform tubercle of the arytenoid?

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Where's the muscular process of the arytenoid?

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Where's the posterior cricoarytenoid muscle? What's it do?

abducts the glottis by externally rotating the arytenoid, displacing the vocal process superiorly and laterally

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Where's the pyriform sinus?