Nobody can deny that an aerodynamic power in the subglottis might be converted to an acoustic energy. However, nobody has reported a definite study on relationship between sub- and supragolottic air pressures which must be an reflection of the voice. Hereby, simultaneous measurements of sub- and supraglotttic pressures have been performed by, are of an artificial phonation in excised canine larynges. In addition, as a subparameter, an air flow during phonation has been visualization in order to observe density distribution of air flow itself.
1. Vocal sound wave, sub- and supraglottic air pressures are not affected on by the existence of the false vocal folds.
2. Constant results in subglottic pressure are obtained at any points of subglottic areas so far as the diameter of the subglottic space is same.
3. An amplitude of supraglottic air pressure is higher at the anterior than at the posterior, the increasing period of the supraglottic air pressure is shorter, the decreasing period of the supraglottic air pressure is longer at the anterior than at the posterior.
4. In decreasing period of the supraglottic pressure, remarkable change is not obtained between normal larynx and pathological larynges.
5. The increasing period of the supraglottic pressure is observed at the decreasing period immediately after the peak of the subglottic pressure.
6. The vocal sound wave is considered as one of reflections by the supraglottic air pressure.
7. By the visualization of the air flow at the phonation of the normal larynx, the periodic wave of condensation and rarefaction is obtained, on the other hand the non-periodic air flow is obtained at the phonation of the pathological larynges.
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