A 27-year-old woman with a goiter comes to the hospital for surgical treatment. The surgeon must ligate the superior laryngeal aery before surgically resecting the goiter, so care must be taken to avoid injury to which of the following nerves?

The Internal laryngeal nerve accompanies the Superior laryngeal aery, External laryngeal nerve accompanies the superior thyroid aery The superior laryngeal, hypoglossal, and vagus nerves are NOT closely associated with the superior laryngeal aery.