TABLE 2.
Lengths in Millimeters of Levator Muscle, Extravelar Length (Length of Muscle From Origin to the Point at Which the Muscle Inserts Into the Body of the Velum), Distance Between Origins at the Base of the Skull, Linear Distance Between the Points Where the Levator Inserted Into the Body of the Velum (“Velar Insertion”), and the Intravelar Segment (IVS; Distance of the Levator Muscle That is Within the Body of the Velum)
| Subject | Levator Length
|
Extravelar Length
|
Origin-Origin | Velar Insertion | IVS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Right | Left | Right | Left | ||||
| S1 | 48.20 | 48.60 | 29.05 | 28.63 | 56.89 | 25.25 | 39.12 |
| S2 | 50.58 | 52.51 | 32.60 | 30.47 | 58.60 | 27.45 | 40.02 |
| S3 | 41.67 | 42.17 | 26.88 | 26.82 | 51.53 | 22.35 | 30.14 |
| S4 | 47.19 | 48.75 | 33.13 | 34.66 | 58.12 | 27.52 | 28.15 |
| S5 | 48.50 | 46.95 | 34.08 | 32.34 | 57.88 | 23.99 | 29.03 |
| S6 | 52.85 | 52.68 | 34.54 | 34.63 | 60.04 | 26.58 | 36.36 |
| S7 | 45.43 | 44.82 | 28.12 | 27.10 | 52.45 | 26.42 | 35.03 |
| S8 | 46.25 | 45.48 | 30.11 | 28.35 | 58.50 | 26.37 | 33.27 |
| S9 | 48.08 | 48.07 | 29.10 | 29.18 | 52.38 | 27.66 | 37.87 |
| S10 | 43.24 | 46.12 | 27.89 | 27.89 | 53.70 | 28.69 | 33.58 |
| Mean/SD | 47.20 (3.3) | 47.72 (3.3) | 30.55 (2.8) | 30.01 (2.9) | 56.01 (3.1) | 26.23 (1.9) | 34.26 (4.2) |