✅Tongue

Question 1

What are the two types of primary muscles in the tongue?

Answer 1

Extrinsic and Intrinsic

Question 2

What are the extrinsic primary muscles?

Answer 2

• Genioglossus
• Styloglossus
• Hypoglossus
• palatoglossus

Question 3

What are the intrinsic primary muscles?

Answer 3

Verticalis
Superior longitudinal
Inferior longitudinal
Transverse

Question 4

What is key for the tongue?

Answer 4

Redundancy

Question 5

What are the roles of the tongue?

Answer 5

• tasting food
• moving food inside the oral cavity for easier chewing
• the process of shaping laryngeal voice into words

Question 6

How to we taste?

Answer 6

There are receptors on the tongue

Question 7

Why do we bite our tongue?

Answer 7

Because the tongue and teeth move simultaneously

Question 8

What is the thing that attaches your tongue to behind your teeth?

Answer 8

Frenulum

Question 9

Why are the left and right sides of the frenulum protruded?

Answer 9

Because the submandibular and sublingual glands are opened there to release saliva

Question 10

What is one option of treating short tongue?

Answer 10

Cutting the frenulum

Question 11

What does extrinsic mean?

Answer 11

Attached to hyoid bone, mandible, styloid process of skill.

Question 12

What does intrinsic mean?

Answer 12

Within the tongue

Question 13

What are the 3 roles of the tongue?

Answer 13

Taste
Chew
Articulation

Question 14

What type of voice does the tongue shape into words?

Answer 14

Laryngeal

Question 15

What on the tongue enables us to taste food?

Answer 15

Receptors

Question 16

How does the tongue move?

Answer 16

Freely

Question 17

What is the tongue composed of?

Answer 17

Hundreds of small muscles

Question 18

What is the piece of skin under the tongue, attaching it to the floor of the mouth called?

Answer 18

Frenulum

Question 19

One option of treating short tongue is to cut what?

Answer 19

The frenulum

Question 20

Why are the left and right sides of the frenulum protruded?

Answer 20

Because the submandibular and sublingual glands are opened there to release saliva

Question 21

What do you call muscles inside the tongue?

Answer 21

Intrinsic

Question 22

What muscle protrudes the tongue (sticks it out) ?

Answer 22

Genioglossus

Question 23

What shape is the genioglossus?

Answer 23

Fan shape

Question 24

What does the genioglossus do?

Answer 24

Protracts and depresses the tongue

Question 25

What does the genioglossus attach to?

Answer 25

Hyoid bone | Bottom of the tongue

Question 26

What is the function of the styoglossus

Answer 26

To draw the sides of the tongue upwards to create a trough for swallowing

Question 27

What retracts and elevates the tongue?

Answer 27

Styloglossus

Question 28

What connects to the hyoid bone?

Answer 28

Hyoglossus

Question 29

What does the hyoglossus do?

Answer 29

Depresses and retracts the tongue

Question 30

The hydroglossus makes the dorsum more what?

Answer 30

Convex

Question 31

What muscles go across the tongue?

Answer 31

The transverse lingual muscle ( and vertical lingual muscles)

Question 32

What does the transverse muscle do?

Answer 32

Elongates, narrows and protrudes the tongue

Question 33

What does the verticalis muscle do?

Answer 33

Broaden and flatten the tongue

Question 34

What does the superior longitudinal muscle do?

Answer 34

Retracts, curls the tongue tips and sides superiorly (changes the shape)

Question 35

What does the inferior longitudinal muscle do?

Answer 35

Lifts the tongue tip

Question 36

What muscle sits below the genioglossus?

Answer 36

The geniohyoid

Question 37

What does the geniohyoid elevate?

Answer 37

The hyoid bone

Question 38

What muscle elevates the floor of the tongue which shuts of the oral cavity from the oropharynx?

Answer 38

Palatoglossus

Question 39

What muscle can narrow and point the tongue?

Answer 39

The styloglossus

Question 40

Why do me have a groove in the middle of our tongue?

Answer 40

As the genioglossus pulls down the centre of the tongue

Question 41

What muscles are used when producing a high front vowel?

Answer 41

The tongue goes up and forward so the genioglossus and styloglossus

Question 42

What happens when we produce a retro flex sound?

Answer 42

The superior and inferior longitudinal muscles contract

Question 43

What can move the tongue tip left and right?

Answer 43

The inferior longitudinal muscle

Question 44

What is the tongue shape when we produce a plosive?

Answer 44

The tongue cups

Question 45

Why can certain people not make different shapes with their tongue?

Answer 45

Due to variation : genetic, shape of hard palate etc

Question 46

What does the brain lear a combination of signals to control?

Answer 46

Muscles for speech output

Question 47

What is aglossia?

Answer 47

When people don't have a tongue so use the hyoid and floor of the mouth muscles to articulate

Question 48

What does the genioglossus do?

Answer 48

Pulls the tongue down and forward

Question 49

What dose the hyoglossus do?

Answer 49

Pulls tongue body down

Question 50

What does styloglossus do?

Answer 50

Whole tongue Up and back

Question 51

What does palatoglossus do?

Answer 51

Back of tongue up and back

Question 52

What does the longitudinal superior do?

Answer 52

Brings tongue body back and up

Question 53

What does longitudinal inferior do?

Answer 53

Brings tongue tip/body back and down