Table 1 - Mechanisms protecting the airway during deglutition
From the following article
Pulmonary complications of oral-pharyngeal motility disorders
Jeffrey L. Curtis
GI Motility online (2006)
doi:10.1038/gimo33
 Laryngeal closure |
| Epiglottic descent |
| Laryngeal elevation (anterocranial motion) |
| Adduction of arytenoid processes |
| Stiffening of aryepiglottic fold |
| Adduction of ventricular folds (false vocal cords) |
| Adduction of true vocal cords |
| Capture of spillover materials in the pyriform sinuses |
| Swallowing apnea |
| Cough |
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