[The physiology of swallowing].
This article reviews the sensory and the motor coordination during the oro-pharyngeal and pharyngo-esophageal stage of deglutition including laryngeal dynamics. The performance of swallowing takes less than one second. In this short period the well-coordinated action of five cranial nerves and 26 muscle-groups has to be accomplished. There is a great number of dysfunctions, that can occur during this rapid and complex motility phenomena.
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D003679:Deglutition / Q000502:physiology*; D003680:Deglutition Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology; D004943:Esophagogastric Junction / Q000502:physiology; D004947:Esophagus / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009960:Oropharynx / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000502:physiology*; D011859:Radiography
Die Physiologie des Schluckakts.