The pharyngeal muscles are a group of muscles that form the pharynx, which is posterior to the oral cavity, determining the ... Stylopharyngeus muscle Salpingopharyngeus muscle Palatopharyngeus muscle During swallowing, these muscles act to shorten and ... Superior constrictor muscle Middle constrictor muscle Inferior constrictor muscle During swallowing, these muscles constrict to ... The pharyngeal muscles (involuntary skeletal) push food into the esophagus. There are two muscular layers of the pharynx: the ...

The inferior pharyngeal constrictor muscle is a skeletal muscle of the neck. It is the thickest of the three outer pharyngeal ... The inferior pharyngeal constrictor muscle can be supplied by branches from the pharyngeal plexus, the recurrent laryngeal ... Uncoordinated muscle contraction, cricopharyngeal spasm, or impaired relaxation of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor muscle ... The inferior pharyngeal constrictor muscle can merge with superior pharyngeal constrictor, or posterior part of pharyngobasilar ...

The muscle inserts onto the pharyngeal raphe, and pharyngeal spine. It is innervated by pharyngeal branch of the vagus nerve ... The superior pharyngeal constrictor muscle is a quadrilateral muscle of the pharynx. It is the uppermost and thinnest of the ... The superior pharyngeal constrictor muscle receives motor innervation from the pharyngeal plexus of vagus nerve. Arterial ... sheet-like muscle. It is thinner than the middle and inferior constrictor muscles. The sites of origin of the muscles ...

Muscles of the neck. Lateral view. Middle pharyngeal constrictor muscle Middle pharyngeal constrictor muscle Deep dissection of ... The middle pharyngeal constrictor is a fan-shaped muscle located in the neck. It is one of three pharyngeal constrictor muscles ... The middle pharyngeal constrictor is a sheet-like, fan-shaped muscle. The muscle's fibers diverge from their origin: the more ... It is smaller than the inferior pharyngeal constrictor muscle. The middle pharyngeal constrictor originates from the greater ...

"Neuromuscular specializations of the pharyngeal dilator muscles: II. Compartmentalization of the canine genioglossus muscle". ... The genioglossus is one of the paired extrinsic muscles of the tongue. It is a fan-shaped muscle that comprises the bulk of the ... The canine genioglossus muscle has been divided into horizontal and oblique compartments. Susan Standring; Neil R. Borley; et ... Genioglossus is the fan-shaped extrinsic tongue muscle that forms the majority of the body of the tongue. It arises from the ...

It covers the superior pharyngeal constrictor muscles, and buccinator muscle. The buccopharyngeal fascia is a thin lamina given ... The buccopharyngeal fascia envelops the superior pharyngeal constrictor muscles. It extends anteriorly from the constrictor ... The Pharyngeal Constrictor Muscles" "Buccopharyngeal fascia". Medcyclopaedia. GE. Archived from the original on 2012-02-05. ... though another source describes it as continuous with the fascia covering the buccinator muscle). It is attached to the ...

It is the only muscle of the pharynx not to originate in the pharyngeal wall. Some of its fibers are lost in the superior and ... Stylopharyngeus muscle Stylopharyngeus muscle Stylopharyngeus muscle Stylopharyngeus muscle This article incorporates text in ... The muscle is situated in between the external carotid artery and internal carotid artery. On the lateral pharyngeal wall, it ... The stylopharyngeus muscle is a muscle in the head. It originates from the temporal styloid process. Some of its fibres insert ...

It supports the pharyngeal dilator muscles and usually bears an ocellus. frontal sutures (Anatomical feature) suture lines that ... alary muscles Muscles along the dorsal diaphragm that may drive circulation. alata The parthenogenetic winged morph of vividae ...

Inhalation shows a sudden, ramped increase in motor discharge to the respiratory muscles (and the pharyngeal constrictor ... The tone of respiratory muscle is believed to be modulated by muscle spindles via a reflex arc involving the spinal cord. Drugs ... "Respiratory-related activation and mechanical effects of the pharyngeal constrictor muscles". Respiration Physiology. 119 (2-3 ... During very short-term bouts of intense exercise the release of lactic acid into the blood by the exercising muscles causes a ...

Niacaris T, Avery L (January 2003). "Serotonin regulates repolarization of the C. elegans pharyngeal muscle". The Journal of ... The effects of serotonin upon vascular smooth muscle tone - the biological function after which serotonin was originally named ... In high concentrations, serotonin acts as a vasoconstrictor by contracting endothelial smooth muscle directly or by ... The released serotonin activates the muscles used for feeding, while octopamine suppresses them. Serotonin diffuses to ...

Posteriorly, it is reinforced by the pharyngeal raphe. It reinforces the pharyngeal wall where muscle is deficient.[citation ... It is formed as a thickening of the pharyngeal mucosa superior to the superior pharyngeal constrictor muscle. It attaches to ...

Its muscles are controlled by the pharyngeal branch of the vagus nerve. A bifid or bifurcated uvula is a split or cleft uvula. ... This change in contour allows the soft palate to adapt closely to the posterior pharyngeal wall to help close the nasopharynx ... Bifid uvulas have less muscle in them than a normal uvula, which may cause recurring problems with middle ear infections. While ...

They are all pharyngeal muscles, with the exception of the geniohyoid muscle. The digastric is uniquely named for its two ... thin muscles that are nearly parallel with the posterior belly of the digastric muscle. These four muscles have different ... The mylohyoid muscles are thin, flat muscles that form a sling inferior to the tongue supporting the floor of the mouth. The ... The suprahyoid muscles are four muscles located above the hyoid bone in the neck. They are the digastric, stylohyoid, ...

... occur in the cricopharyngeal part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor muscle, at the bottom of the throat. They cause muscle ... They move up and down, left and right in the pharyngeal muscles. Both may be present. The patient complains about the signs and ... It innerves the inferior pharyngeal constrictor muscle where the cricopharyngeal spasms occur. Throat spasms can also appear ... Muscle relaxants (benefit obtained on the short-term) Clonazepam (Rivotril), diazepam (Valium) and lorazepam (Ativan) and other ...

MG's dominant characteristic is muscles weakness including facial, jaw, pharyngeal and laryngeal muscles. Charcot-Marie-Tooth ( ... Electromyography of the larynx muscles (larynx EMG), which measures the electrical activity of the larynx muscles via thin ... which control all intrinsic muscles of the larynx except for the cricothyroid muscle. The RLN is important for speaking, ... In unilateral vocal fold paresis, there is a lack of nerve supply to one side of the vocal fold's PCA muscle. This lack of ...

The palatoglossus muscle receives motor innervation from the pharyngeal plexus of vagus nerve. It is the only muscle of the ... The palatoglossal muscle is a muscle of the soft palate and an extrinsic muscle of the tongue. Its surface is covered by oral ... This muscle also prevents the spill of saliva from vestibule into the oropharynx by maintaining the palatoglossal arch. This ... the same muscle of the opposite side). It inserts onto the side of the tongue; some of its fibers extend over the dorsum of the ...

It is not visible in around 28%, making the superior pharyngeal constrictor muscle and the buccinator muscle continuous. This ... The pterygomandibular raphe is the common meeting point of the superior pharyngeal constrictor muscle and the buccinator muscle ... It gives attachment to the buccinator muscle (in front), and the superior pharyngeal constrictor muscle (behind). The ... Its posterior border gives attachment to the superior pharyngeal constrictor muscle. Its anterior border attaches to the ...

Some cutaneous muscle bundles of the pre-pharyngeal region are sunk in. A feature that sets I. assanga apart from other members ... A common muscle coat envelops both the female and male atria. The specific epithet is derived from the Tupi language word ... of Issoca is the fact that the cephalic retractor muscle and the sub-neural parenchymal muscle do not intersect; the ...

"Optical imaging of calcium transients in neurons and pharyngeal muscle of C. elegans". Neuron. 26 (3): 583-94. doi:10.1016/ ... be used for ratiometric measurements and the first to be used in a transgenic animal to record activity in neurons and muscle ...

"Optical imaging of calcium transients in neurons and pharyngeal muscle of C. elegans". Neuron. 26 (3): 583-59. doi:10.1016/ ...

Two muscles originate along the line, the thyrohyoid muscle and inferior pharyngeal constrictor. The sternothyroid inserts ... The cartilage also serves as an attachment for several muscles. The English term thyroid cartilage is derived from the Latin ...

"Optical imaging of calcium transients in neurons and pharyngeal muscle of C. elegans". Neuron. 26 (3): 583-94. doi:10.1016/ ... In 2000, Schafer and his student Rex Kerr showed that the GECI yellow cameleon 2 could be used to record activity in muscles ...

"Optical imaging of calcium transients in neurons and pharyngeal muscle of C. elegans". Neuron. 26 (3): 583-594. doi:10.1016/ ... May 2004). "Ca2+-sensing transgenic mice: postsynaptic signaling in smooth muscle". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279 ( ... William Schafer and coworkers to record from neurons and muscle cells of the nematode C. elegans. Cameleon was subsequently ...

These muscles develop from the first pharyngeal arch. There are two brain pathways associated with facial expression; the first ... These muscles develop from the second pharyngeal arch in the embryo. The temporalis, masseter, and internal and external ... They are caused by the movement of muscles that connect to the skin and fascia in the face. These muscles move the skin, ... A facial expression is one or more motions or positions of the muscles beneath the skin of the face. According to one set of ...

In the pharyngeal apparatus, a redistribution of the muscles and bones' attachments aids the pharyngeal apparatus. The ... retractor dorsalis muscle[3] now placed on the 3rd pharyngobranchial curve, pharyngeal jaws that are on the upper are likewise ... The highest level of development is attained by pharyngeal dentition and action. ...

... it is believed they are associated with the pharyngeal mucosa and muscles of the tongue.[citation needed] During the third week ... The duct continues in front of the thyrohyoid membrane, sternothyroid muscle, and sternohyoid muscle, before terminating in the ... This primordium begins as an evagination between the first and second pharyngeal grooves, relatively where the anterior two- ...

The muscle may be absent or doubled. It may issue accessory slips to the thyrohyoid muscle, inferior pharyngeal constrictor ... The sternothyroid muscle (or sternothyroideus) is an infrahyoid muscle of the neck. It acts to depress the hyoid bone. The two ... The sternothyroid muscle is shorter and wider than the sternohyoid muscle and is situated deep to and partially medial to it. ... The sternothyroid muscle depresses the hyoid bone. When the hyoid bone is fixed, it instead elevates the larynx (producing an ...

A natural biologic dressing is left in place over the pharyngeal muscles, preventing injury, inflammation, and infection. The ... larynx and pharyngeal wall, aspiration, respiratory compromise, laryngospasm, laryngeal edema and cardiac arrest. Throat pain ...

The spinal nerves that connect to the muscles of the pharyngeal wall grow individually to reach them. The hagfish eye lacks a ... In particular, hagfish muscles have increased force and gape size compared to similar-sized jawed vertebrates, but lack the ... The role of the branchial arches is highly speculative, as hagfish embryos undergo a caudal shift of the posterior pharyngeal ... The dorsal and ventral muscles located towards the side of the hagfish body are connected to spinal nerves. ...

FLD produces rapidly progressive weakness of tongue, face and pharyngeal muscles in a clinical pattern similar to myasthenia. ... Only muscle biopsy and examination of the transporter genes is considered to provide a definitive diagnosis. However, because ... Neuromuscular transmission may be abnormal in these muscles because of rapid denervation and immature reinnervation. Paralysis ... Progression to involve other cranial nerve muscles occurs over a period of months or years. In the Gomez review facial nerve ...

The external pharyngeal walls consisting of the four constrictor muscles form part of the mechanism of swallowing. The ... radiation dose to the pharyngeal constrictor muscles, larynx, and cricopharyngeal inlet determine the risk of dysphagia (and ... The rise in pharyngeal cancer incidence contrasts with a marginal decline in other head and neck cancers. As a result, the ... The global incidence of pharyngeal cancer in 2013 was estimated at 136,000 cases. For 2008 the Global Burden of Disease for OPC ...