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Upper airway anatomic regions and structures

Upper airway anatomic regions and structures

Nasal

  • Nares
  • Nasal valves
  • Septum
  • Inferior turbinates
  • External cartilages (upper and lower lateral cartilages)
  • Nasal bones

Oral

  • Mandible
  • Maxilla/hard palate
  • Oral tongue
  • Teeth

Upper pharyngeal (nasopharynx, velopharynx, upper oropharynx)

  • Adenoid
  • Soft palate
  • Palatopharyngeus muscle
  • Tonsils

Lower pharyngeal (lower oropharynx, hypopharynx)

  • Tongue base
  • Lingual tonsil
  • Lateral pharyngeal wall

Laryngeal

  • Epiglottis
  • False vocal folds
  • True vocal folds (glottis)
  • Arytenoids
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