Is the pharynx a muscular hydrostat?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 590-595

  Kairaitis, Kristina ^a  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

AIRWAY PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; HYOID BONE; HYPOTHESIS; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; PHARYNX; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RESPIRATORY AIRFLOW; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; TISSUE PRESSURE;

ADULT; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHARYNGEAL MUSCLES; PHARYNX; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE;

HIRUDO MEDICINALIS; MAMMALIA; OCTOPUS;

EID: 77649272272     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.06.040     Document Type: Article

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