What is the most significant contributor to the control variable of contact pressure between pharyngeal-oral structures?

Match the anatomical terms with their corresponding colloquial terms. Place the letter on the appropriate blank.

The digastric (anterior belly), mylohyoid, and geniohyoid muscles that pull down on the mandible:

This is the central mass of the tongue that underlies surface features.

The hard palate is made up of the  bone and the bone.

The thyroid cartilage:

Contraction of the cricothyroid muscle:

These supplemental laryngeal muscles originate below the hyoid bone.

The primary biological function of the larynx is to:

Which of the following statements is true of both bone and cartilage?