The hyoid bone helps support the larynx and tongue in the neck. It is located below the mandible and tongue but above the laryngeal cartilage. It is not directly attached to any other bones but rather is attached to strap muscles above and below. The strap muscles elevate or depress the la...
Throat cancer is any cancerous tumor that grows in either your throat or voice box. Your throat (pharynx) is a muscular tube that starts behind your nose and ends in your neck. Your voice box (larynx) is right under your throat. It's made of cartilage and contains vocal cords that all...
3 basic components of skeletal cartilage: Chondrocytes, collagen, and proteoglycans Three types of cartilage: Hyaline, elastic, and fibrocartilage Hyaline Cartilage: provides support, flexibility, and resilience; most abundant type; EX- joints, costal ribs, larynx, nose tip Elastic cartilage: similar ...
Laryngitis (inflammation of the larynx) Dacryocystitis (inflammation or infection of the lacrimal glands) Orbital cellulitis or abscess (inflammation of the orbit of the eye) Meningitis (inflammation of the meninges) Brain abscess (pus-filled pockets inside the brain) Frontal bone osteomyelitis (infec...
We used the following cancer types as outcomes: head and neck; esophagus; stomach; colorectal; liver; gallbladder and biliary tract; pancreas; larynx; trachea, bronchus, and lung; bone and articular cartilage; malignant melanoma of skin; breast (which we categorized into pre- and post-...
sustains tissue tension; found in dermis of skin elastic provides elastic quality; found in connecting parts of spinal column, walls of arteries and airways elastic cartilage supports, protects, provides flexible framework; found in external ear and part of larynx hyaline cartilage supports, protects,...
What body tissue forms the larynx and costal cartilage that attaches the bone to the sternum? Name the most common type of cartilage. What is the general classification of neoplasms according to their tissue of origin? When a patient has a squamous cell carcinoma, this is derived from what...
Elastic cartilagecontains elastic fibers and is the most flexible type of cartilage. It is found in locations such as the ear and larynx (voice box). Bone Tissue This micrograph shows cancellous (spongy) bone from a vertebra. Cancellous bone is characterized by a honeycomb arrangement, comprising...
Name the two types of bone connective tissue in the body. List the two types of bone connective tissue in the body. What causes the ossification of the ends of long bones? What is the material within the spaces of spongy bone at the e...
amorphous but firm matrix; collagen fibers form an imperceptible network; chondroblasts produce the matrix and when mature (chondrocytes) lie in lacunaeforms the costal cartilage (connecting ribs to sternum)found in embryonic skeleton, the end of long bones, nose, trachea, larynx elastic cartila...