Structure The pharynx as a whole is about 13 centimeters (cm) in length. While the tube is largely made up of muscle, some areas consist of soft tissue.

The soft palate is an area of muscle and tissue at the back of the roof of your mouth. It separates the nasal cavity from the throat, helping you swallow and talk.

For treatment purposes, surgery in particular, it is important to recognize the structure responsible for pharyngeal narrowing. Our study has shown that it is the soft palate or, to be precise ...

The soft palate (u) has elevated to a right angle, revealing the tonsillar fossa (arrows), expanding the valleculae (V) and piriform sinuses (P). T, tongue. (c,d: Source: Levine MS, ed. Radiology ...

Snoring is a noisy inspiratory sound produced by vibration and partial airway obstruction in the pharynx. One cause is vibration of the soft palate. It can lead to disrupted sleep, daytime tiredness ...

The larynx is still closed. (a-d: Source: Jones B, Kramer SS, Donner MW. Dynamic imaging of the pharynx. Gastrointest Radiol 1985;10:213–224, with permission of the authors.) ...

2.1 Snoring is a noisy inspiratory sound produced by vibration and partial airway obstruction in the pharynx. One cause is vibration of the soft palate. It can lead to disrupted sleep, daytime ...