Identify the muscles of the neck and indicate their major actions and sources of

innervation. Indicate the relationship of each of the muscle groups to the layers of
deep fascia in the neck.
Posterior cervical triangle Anterior triangles Suprahyoid
muscles

Infrrahyoid
muscles

Trapezius

Investing layer of deep cervical fascia

Sternocleidomastoid
Pretracheal fascia
(visceral part)
Carotid
sheath

Sternocleidomastoid T
Pretracheal
E fascia
(muscular
part)
Prevertebral muscles
Alar fascia Scalene muscles
Buccopharyngeal
fascia

Prevertebral fascia

Trapezius
Deep Cervical Fascia
 Identify the three pharyngeal constrictor muscles and their anterior attachments to
bony/cartilaginous structures. Identify the three small longitudinal muscles of the pharynx.

Buccinator

Superior constrictor Salpingopharyngeus

Stylopharyngeus

Stylopharyngeus Palatopharyngeus
Superior constrictor

Middle constrictor Middle constrictor

Pterygomandibular Inferior constrictor

raphe
Inferior constrictor
Cricopharyngeus
Cricopharyngeus
 Identify the major cartilages of the larynx
Epiglottis
Epiglottis
Hyoid

Hyoid

Thyroid cart.
Thyroid cart.
Arytenoid
Arytenoid Vocal Cord
cart.
cart.

Cricoid cart. Cricoid cart.

Anterior view Posterior view Sagittal Section

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 …and the muscles which bring about their movement.

Arytenoideus

Cricothyroid Posterior
Crico-arytenoid
Thyro-arytenoid
Lateral
Crico-arytenoid
Cricothyroid

Lateral view Lateral view Posterior view

(deeper)
Identify the role played by each of these muscles in the control of the control of the
size of the rima glottidis.

Post. Crico-arytenoid Lat. Crico-arytenoid Arytenoid cart.

Rima glottidis
Arytenoid cart

Aryepiglottic fold

Rima glottidis
Vocal cord
Vocal cord
Thyroid cart. Thyroid cart.

Arytenoideus
Actions of intrinsic laryngeal muscles

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Follow the course of sensory and motor innervation of the larynx. Predict the functional
consequences of damage to these nerves.
 Trace the course of nerves through the neck noting especially: the sensory and motor
branches of the cervical and brachial plexuses, their course and distribution in the neck and
their relationship to major bony, muscular, or vascular landmarks in the region.
Great auricular n.
Hypoglossal n. (XII) C1
Great auricular n. Lesser occipital n.
Lesser
occipital
C2 n.
Transverse
cervical
nn.
C3

C4
Ansa cervicalis
Accessory n. (XI)

Hypoglossal n. (XII) C5
Supraclavicular nn.
Accessory n. (XI)
Phrenic n.
Ansa cervicalis
C5
Dorsal scapular n.
C6 Nn. to longus colli and scalenes

Vagus n. (X) C7 Suprascapular n.

C8
Phrenic n.

T1

Long thoracic n.
Trace the course of nerves through the neck noting especially: the extension of the
upper part of the sympathetic trunk into the neck region.

Vagus (X)
C1
Sup. Cervical gang.

C2
C3
Carotid plexus
C4 Glossopharyngeal (IX)
Middle C5
Cervical gang.
C6
C7
Cervicothoracic
gang. C8
Trace the flow of arterial blood from the aorta through the neck including vessels that pass
through the neck without branching and those that send branches to viscera and muscles of
the neck.
Two main arteries are found in the neck: Subclavian and branches and Carotid

Vertebral
Deep cervical Post.
Superficial temporal
auricular

Maxillary
Ascending
cervical
Facial
Int. Digastric
Transverse
Inf. thyroid carotid Lingual
cervical
Ext. carotid
Sup. thyroid
Thyrocervical
Sup. laryngeal
Suprascapular

Ascending Omohyoid
pharyngeal

Common carotid

Subclavian Ext. Carotid

Trace the pathways for venous drainage from the neck into the brachial veins.

Sup. thyroid

Ext. jugular
Int. jugular

Middle
thyroid

Inf. thyroid
Ant. jugular