title: [The physiology of swallowing].
abstract: 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.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wuttge-Hannig
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hannig
mesh_terms: 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
vernacular_title: Die Physiologie des Schluckakts.