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True or false: The muscles of the larynx are divided into two groups and each group is further divided into two subgroups?
True
True or false: Extrinsic muscles are also called strap muscles because of their flat shape?
True
True or false: Elevators of the larynx are also known as suprahyoid muscles?
True
True or false: Depressors of the larynx are also known as infrahyoid muscles?
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True or false: Intrinsic muscles are divided into two subgroups?
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True or false: Muscles controlling the laryngeal inlet are part of the intrinsic muscles?
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True or false: Muscles controlling the movements of the vocal folds are part of the intrinsic muscles?
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True or false: Muscular nomenclature is usually not informative?
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True or false: The action of a muscle is that the insertion is moved closer to the origin when this muscle is activated?
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True or false: Sternohyoid is a muscle that extends from the sternum to the hyoid bone?
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True or false: The sternohyoid muscle brings the hyoid bone down in the direction of the sternum.
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True or false: Laryngeal elevation is primarily caused by muscles inserted into the hyoid originating in higher structures.
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True or false: The digastric muscle has only one belly.
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True or false: The stylohyoid muscle originates from the styloid process of the temporal bone.
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True or false: The mylohyoid muscle provides stability for tongue movement during swallowing.
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True or false: The geniohyoid muscle originates from the genial tubercle of the mandible.
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True or false: The sternothyroid muscle depresses the hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage.
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True or false: The thyrohyoid muscle is considered a laryngeal elevator if contracted while the hyoid is fixed.
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True or false: The omohyoid muscle is attached to the clavicle by fibrous fascia.
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True or false: The lateral cricoarytenoid muscle closes the membranous glottis.
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The oblique arytenoid muscles originate from the base of the arytenoids and insert into the apex of the other arytenoid.
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The cricothyroid muscle brings the lower border of the thyroid closer to the arch of the cricoid, increasing the distance between the thyroid angle and the arytenoid vocal process.
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The thyroarytenoid muscle originates from the thyroid and inserts in the vocal process and anterolateral surface of the arytenoid.
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The external laryngeal nerve provides sensory innervation to the mucosa from the inlet to the glottis.
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The recurrent laryngeal nerve provides motor innervation to all intrinsic laryngeal muscles, including the cricothyroid.
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The superior laryngeal nerve divides into two branches: the internal laryngeal nerve and the external laryngeal nerve.
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The lymph vessels drain into the superficial cervical lymph nodes.
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The vagus nerve provides sensory and motor innervation to the larynx.
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The inferior laryngeal artery is a branch of the superior thyroid artery.
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The vocalis muscle is a broad sheet laterally, but thin and called the vocalis medially.
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