Lab Practical 3 Human Sagittal Head Model

Question 1

Nostrils

Answer 1

External Nares

Question 2

the trench between the gums and the lips of the mouth

Answer 2

Oral vestibule

Question 3

muscle that attaches the tongue to the floor of the mouth

Answer 3

lingual frenulum

Question 4

the big red muscle that takes up the oral cavity

Answer 4

tongue

Question 5

made up of the maxilla and palatine bone

Answer 5

hard palate

Question 6

back of roof of mouth, made up of tissue rather than bone

Answer 6

soft palate

Question 7

canal at the back of the nasal cavity that descends into the throat

Answer 7

Nasopharynx

Question 8

random hole/depression just superior to the soft palate

Answer 8

auditory tube opening

Question 9

weird little node thing at the top back of the nasopharynx

Answer 9

pharyngeal tonsils (adnoids)

Question 10

the continuation of the nasopharynx at the back of the oral cavity

Answer 10

oropharynx

Question 11

node thing just below the end of the soft palate

Answer 11

palatine tonsils

Question 12

continuation of the oropharynx, but not into the throat, at the split between wind pipe and esophagus

Answer 12

larangopharynx

Question 13

“the wind pipe” tube

Answer 13

Larynx

Question 14

the valve flap into the. larynx

Answer 14

epiglottis

Question 15

on the sagittal model the blue cartilage on the superior anterior part of the larynx

Answer 15

thyroid cartilage

Question 16

the inferior 2 cartilage bubbles on the sagittal head model, thicker in the posterior one

Answer 16

cricoid cartilage

Question 17

the little ridge in the larynx that is superior to the other one

Answer 17

false vocal cords (vestibular folds)

Question 18

the little ridge in the larynx that is inferior to the other one

Answer 18

true vocal cords (vocal folds)

Question 19

what the larynx turns into as it travels towards the lungs

Answer 19

trachea

Question 20

the tube running down towards the stomach, in the posterior side of the throat

Answer 20

esophagus