Pharynx

The pharynx extends from the base of the skull to the lower border of which cartillage?

How many parts is the pharynx made up of?

Which circularly disposed muscle arises from the pterygomandibular raphe, which runs between the pterygoid hamulus and the mandible?

Which ligament, on top of the hyoid bone, does the middle constrictor arise from?

The inferior constrictor instead connects to cartillage, the cricoid and which other one?

What is another name for the cricoid fibres of the inferior cricoid muscle, which have a sphincteric effect?

The inner layer of muscle in the pharynx has three small longitudinal muscles, stylopharyngeus, palatopharyngeus and which third?

In what direction do they pull the larynx and pharynx during swallowing?

What cranial nerve gives the main supply to the pharyngeal muscles, through its pharyngeal branch?

What other cranial nerve is presumed to contribute to the innervation with its motor fibres going into the pharyngeal plexus?

There are three major parts of the pharynx, nasopharynx, oropharynx and which third?

What nerve supplies the nasopharynx?

Oropharynx?

What is the name of the ring that surrounds the entrance of the digestive and respiratory tracts that consists of specialised lymphatic tissue?

There are four groups which are the pharyngeal tonsil (adenoid), tubal tonsil, palatine tonsil (tonsils) and which fourth found on the posterior surface of the tongue?