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Hint	Answer	% Correct
How many parts is the pharynx made up of?	3	100%
The pharynx extends from the base of the skull to the lower border of which cartillage?	Cricoid	100%
There are three major parts of the pharynx, nasopharynx, oropharynx and which third?	Laryngopharynx	67%
What cranial nerve gives the main supply to the pharyngeal muscles, through its pharyngeal branch?	Vagus	67%
What is another name for the cricoid fibres of the inferior cricoid muscle, which have a sphincteric effect?	Cricopharyngeus	33%
Oropharynx?	Glossopharyngeal	33%
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?	Lingual tonsil	33%
In what direction do they pull the larynx and pharynx during swallowing?	Up	33%
What is the name of the ring that surrounds the entrance of the digestive and respiratory tracts that consists of specialised lymphatic tissue?	Waldeyer's	33%
What other cranial nerve is presumed to contribute to the innervation with its motor fibres going into the pharyngeal plexus?	Accessory	0%
What nerve supplies the nasopharynx?	Maxillary	0%
The inner layer of muscle in the pharynx has three small longitudinal muscles, stylopharyngeus, palatopharyngeus and which third?	Salpingopharyngeus	0%
Which ligament, on top of the hyoid bone, does the middle constrictor arise from?	Stylohyoid ligament	0%
Which circularly disposed muscle arises from the pterygomandibular raphe, which runs between the pterygoid hamulus and the mandible?	Superior constrictor	0%
The inferior constrictor instead connects to cartillage, the cricoid and which other one?	Thyroid	0%

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