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Articulation and Bones of the Skull
pg. 267-287
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Anatomy
Undergraduate 3
12/05/2009

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Define: Articulation for speech.
Definition
the process of bringing two or more moveable speech structures together to form the sounds of speech.
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Define: Articulatory System
Definition
the system of mobile and immobile articulators brought into contact for the purpose of shaping the sounds of speech.
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Define: The Source-Filter Theory
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voicing a source is generated b the vocal folds and routed through the vocal tract where it is shaped into the sounds of speech.
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Changes in the shape and configuration of what structures govern the resonance characteristics of the vocal tract.
Definition
tongue, mandible and soft palate
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The sound of a particular vowel is determined by what?
Definition
The resonance of the vocal tract
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The vocal tract consists of what?
Definition
oral cavity, nasal cavity, and pharynx
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Define: Resonant Frequency
Definition
frequency of stimulation to which a resonant system responds most vigorously
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The resonant frequency of a cavity is largely governed by what two characteristics.
Definition
It's volume and length
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As your tongue drops back in your mouth, increasing the size of the oral cavity yo will hear the frequency...
Definition
drop
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The largest mobile articulator is the ______ with the _____ as a close second.
Definition
tongue; mandible
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These are the mobile articulators.
Definition
tongue, mandible, velum, lips, cheeks, pharynx, larynx, and hyoid bone
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These are the immobile articulators.
Definition
alveolar ridge of the maxilla, teeth, and the hard palate
Term
The massive unpaired bone making up the lower jaw of the face?
Definition
The Mandible
Term
The point of fusion of the two halves of the mandible is?
Definition
The symphysis mente or mental semphysis
Term
The mental symphysis marks the midline ____ ____ and separates the paired mental _______ .
Definition
mental protuberance, tubercles
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Lateral to the mental tubercles on either side is the _____ _____.
Definition
mental foramen
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This nerve passes through the mental foramen.
Definition
The mental nerve of V trigeminal.
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The lateral mass of the mandible is the _____ and the point at which the mandible angles upward is the _____.
Definition
corpus, angle
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The rhomboid plate rising up from the mandible is the____.
Definition
Ramus
Term
The condylar and coronoid processes of the mandible are separated by the _____ ______.
Definition
mandibular notch
Term
The prominent head of the condylar process of the mandible articulates with the _____ permitting _____ of the mandible.
Definition
skull, rotation
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Define: fovea
Definition
pit
Term
The pterygoid fovea on the anterior surface of the mandible marks the point of attachment for the ______ _______ _______.
Definition
lateral pterygoid muscle
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Teeth are found within he small _____ _____ on the upper surface of the ______ ____ of the mandible.
Definition
dental alveoli, alveolar arch
Term
Paired bones that make up the upper jaw.
Definition
maxillae
Term
What paired bones make up most of the hard palate, nose and upper dental ridge?
Definition
The Maxillae
Term
The superior most point of the maxilla is the _____ _____.
Definition
frontal process
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Define: infraorbital margin
Definition
inferior half of the orbital rim, or the lower border of the orbital opening, formed by the maxilla medially and the zygomatic bone laterally.
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What process of the maxilla articulates with the zygomatic bone?
Definition
The zygomatic process.
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At the midline of the maxilla you find the _____ _____ ____and _____ ______ and lateral to this is _____ _____.
Definition
anterior nasal spine, nasal crest, the nasal notch
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