How to access and use Anatomy TV
This document is written for students of Linguistics 205 at the University of Alberta. It is meant to facilitate use of the AnatomyTV resource for studying speech anatomy.
To access this resource, you must have a computer connected to the Internet, and your CCID credentials (username and password).
- Navigate to the university library website: http://library.ualberta.ca/.
- Click “Databases” in the menu: http://library.ualberta.ca/databases/.
- In the search box type “Anatomy TV”.
- Click on the “Anatomy TV” link that appears.
- If prompted, enter your CCID credentials and click “Go”.
- In the window that appears next, chose “Clinical Specialties”, and select “Speech and Language Pathology”. (Speech therapists are interested in the same anatomy and physiology as phoneticians.) This will open a new browser window. It may take some time.
- You now see a welcome page, with pointers to some help on how to browse the material, as well as a 3-D image of the larynx in the background with various tissues. It may be worthwhile to view the help videos offered here.
- For the various views, you can select different layers to get a view of different tissues and points of interest. The popup menu at the lower left gives a list of layers, or you can click the up and down buttons on either side to cycle through them.
- Different frames show you the same region from different angles. The left and right buttons (to the right of the layer buttons on the bottom) let you move through the frames one at a time.
Warning: The images under Principles of Anatomy in the menu at the lower right illustrate terminology about directions and planes of view. This is educational, but it uses a nude 3D male model. This terminology will not be examined, so you are not missing any urgent pedagogical content if you skip this bit.
Using the directory in the bottom right quarter of the window, I recommend you at least see these two views:
- ORAL CAVITY AND INFRATEMPORAL FOSSA (essentially the supralaryngeal area)
- Oral cavity and infratemporal fossa, layer 12 frame 9.
- See if you can locate the various regions of the oral cavity (soft palate, hard palate, uvula, alveolar ridge, teeth, lips).
- See why the anterior part of the roof of the mouth is the hard palate and the posterior part is the soft palate.
- Notice that they divide the pharynx into the oropharynx and laryngopharynx.
- Note where the larynx is relative to the tongue.
- Isn’t the tongue huge?!
- Palate (from below), layer 1.
- Another way to see the hard and soft palate, alveolar ridge, teeth, and lips.
- PHARYNX AND LARYNX
- Larynx, layer 1 all frames.
- This is the view you start with
- I used different frames in this view in the anatomy lecture (notes, video, etc).
- Layer 1 shows only the hard structures you need to know.
- Layer 14 includes all the squidgy bits, like the endoscopic view in the screencast lecture.
Please remember that you do not need to know the full anatomy of the speech system inside and out. For example, we are not covering ligaments, muscles, nerves, and circulatory supply in this course. You are welcome to study that material and learn about it - it will serve you well in clinical work or laboratory research in the future - but do not let it distract you from the basics you need for this phonetics course.
Also, check out the movies. Click Movies along the top, and see the Mucosal wave (that is, how exactly the vocal folds move when they vibrate) and the Phonetic animations.
