Labels:book | bulletin board | chair | curtain | door | earth | fence | plaything | sky | trade name | tree | tribute album | vase | windowpane OCR: ANATOMY THE LARYNX HE LARYNX IS often known Epiglottis the voice box because contains your vocal cords. It is Bone situated at the front of your neck and has three important Ligament functions: it keeps the windpipe to your lungs clear; it directs Cartilage pody umop the correct passage Firm. flexible to stop you from choking; and skeletal tissue it ena bles vou to talk flap of tissue. called the epiglottis, opens Adam apple and closes the passage to the lungs. The thyroid cartilage the Thyroid cartilage most prominent cartilage in the larynx; you can feel it when you swallow The cricoid cartila ge Cricoid firmly attaches the thyroid cartilage cartilage to the windpipe. W indpipe Cartilage rings Prevent the collapse of the windpipe during breathing FRONT SIDE TOP food down thvroid
