Phrayngeal Muscles

Question 1

Superior Constrictor Origin

Answer 1

From multiple sites at the front of the pharyngeal tube

Question 2

Superior Constrictor Insertion

Answer 2

Median raphe of the posterior pharygneal wall

Question 3

Middle Constrictor Origin

Answer 3

Greater and lesser horns of hyoid bone and stylohyoid ligament

Question 4

Middle Constrictor Insertion

Answer 4

Median raphe of the posterior pharyngeal wall

Question 5

Inferior Constrictor Origin

Answer 5

Sides of the thyroid and cricoid cartilages

Question 6

Inferior Constrictor Insertion

Answer 6

Median raphe of the posterior pharyngeal wall

Question 7

Superior, Middle, & Inferior Constrictor Use

Answer 7

Pull pharyngeal walls inward and forward to constrict pharyngeal tube

Question 8

Salpingopharyngeus Origin

Answer 8

Near the lower border of the pharyngeal orifice of the auditory tube

Question 9

Salpingopharyngeus Insertion

Answer 9

Lateral pharyngeal wall (where it bends with fibers of the palatopharyngeus muscle)

Question 10

Salpingopharyngeus Use

Answer 10

Pulls lateral pharyngeal walls upward and inward

Question 11

Stylopharyngeus Origin

Answer 11

Styloid process of the temporal bone

Question 12

Stylopharyngeus Insertion

Answer 12

Lateral pharyngeal wall near the juncture of the superior and middle constrictor muscles and into the thyroid cartilage

Question 13

Stylopharyngeus Use

Answer 13

Pulls up on the pharynx and pulls the lateral walls outward (widens the pharynx)

Question 14

Palatopharyngeus Origin

Answer 14

Soft palate and some fibers run horizontally and intermingle with the superior constrictor fibers and other fibers run through the posterior faucial pillars

Question 15

Palatopharyngeus Insertion

Answer 15

Lower lateral wall of the pharynx and the thyroid cartilage

Question 16

Palatopharyngeus Use

Answer 16

Pulls inward on upper pharyngeal walls and upward on lower lateral pharyngeal walls (with velum fixed)