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  2. Styloglossus - Wikipedia

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    The styloglossus muscle is a bilaterally paired muscle of the tongue. It originates at the styloid process of the temporal bone . It inserts onto the side of the tongue.

  3. Pharyngeal muscles - Wikipedia

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    The pharyngeal muscles are a group of muscles that form the pharynx, which is posterior to the oral cavity, determining the shape of its lumen, and affecting its sound properties as the primary resonating cavity.

  4. Swallowing - Wikipedia

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    The clinical significance of this finding is that patients with a baseline of compromised lung function will, over a period of time, develop respiratory distress as a meal progresses. Subsequently, false vocal fold adduction, adduction of the aryepiglottic folds and retroversion of the epiglottis take place.

  5. Tongue - Wikipedia

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    The styloglossus arises from the styloid process of the temporal bone and draws the sides of the tongue up to create a trough for swallowing. The palatoglossus arises from the palatine aponeurosis , and depresses the soft palate , moves the palatoglossal fold towards the midline, and elevates the back of the tongue during swallowing.

  6. Stylopharyngeus muscle - Wikipedia

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    The stylopharyngeus is a long, slender, [1] [2] tapered pharyngeal muscle. [2] It is cylindrical superiorly, and flattened inferiorly. [1]It passes inferior-ward along the side of the pharynx [1] between the superior pharyngeal constrictor (situated deep to the stylopharyngeus) and the middle pharyngeal constrictor (situated superficial to the stylopharyngeus), [2] before spreads out beneath ...

  7. Temporal styloid process - Wikipedia

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    The temporal styloid process is a slender bony process of the temporal bone extending downward and forward from the undersurface of the temporal bone [1] just below the ear. [citation needed] The styloid process gives attachments to several muscles, and ligaments.

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  9. Suprahyoid muscles - Wikipedia

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    These four muscles have different actions, but in general assist in elevating the hyoid bone and widening the esophagus during swallowing.When the two bellies of the digastric contract, they pull upward on the hyoid bone; but if the hyoid is fixed from below, the digastric assists in extreme opening of the mouth such as yawning or taking a large bite of an apple. [1]