Table 1.
Muscles are mapped by coordinates and organized into two functional groups hypothesized to elevate the hyolaryngeal complex
| Muscles | Representative Coordinates |
Functional Groups | Hypothesized Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geniohyoid | 1–9 | Anterior muscular sling (Suprahyoid muscles) | Eigenvector of 9 towards line 1–3 (mandible) |
| Stylohyoid | 3–9 | ||
| Digastric | 1-9-3 | ||
| Mylohyoid | 9→ line 1–3 (mandible) | ||
| Palatopharyngeus | 2–6 | Posterior muscular sling (Long pharyngeal muscles) | Eigenvector of 7 towards point 3 (cranial base) |
| Stylopharyngeus | 3–7 |