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  2. Uvula - Wikipedia

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    The muscular part of the uvula (Latin: musculus uvulae) shortens and broadens the uvula.This changes the contour of the posterior part of the soft palate. This change in contour allows the soft palate to adapt closely to the posterior pharyngeal wall to help close the nasopharynx during swallowing.

  3. Pharynx - Wikipedia

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    The pharynx (pl.: pharynges) is the part of the throat behind the mouth and nasal cavity, and above the esophagus and trachea (the tubes going down to the stomach and the lungs respectively). It is found in vertebrates and invertebrates, though its structure varies across species. The pharynx carries food to the esophagus and air to the larynx.

  4. Zenker's diverticulum - Wikipedia

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    A Zenker's diverticulum, also pharyngeal pouch, is a diverticulum of the mucosa of the human pharynx, just above the cricopharyngeal muscle (i.e. above the upper sphincter of the esophagus). It is a pseudo diverticulum or false diverticulum (only involving the mucosa and submucosa of the esophageal wall, not the adventitia), also known as a ...

  5. 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. The pharyngeal muscles (involuntary skeletal) push food into the esophagus.

  6. Buccopharyngeal fascia - Wikipedia

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    The buccopharyngeal fascia envelops the superior pharyngeal constrictor muscles. [ 4 ] [ 1 ] It extends anteriorly from the constrictor pharyngis superior [ 4 ] over the pterygomandibular raphe to cover the buccinator muscle [ 1 ] (though another source describes it as continuous with the fascia covering the buccinator muscle).

  7. Pharyngeal raphe - Wikipedia

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    The pharyngeal raphe is a raphe that serves as the posterior attachment for several of the pharyngeal constrictors (thyropharyngeal part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor muscle, middle pharyngeal constrictor muscle, superior pharyngeal constrictor muscle). [1] [2] Two sides of the pharyngeal wall are joined posteriorly in the midline by ...

  8. Fauces (throat) - Wikipedia

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    The posterior pillar is the palatopharyngeal arch formed of the palatopharyngeus muscle. Between these two arches on the lateral walls of the oropharynx is the tonsillar fossa which is the location of the palatine tonsil. [3] The arches are also known together as the palatine arches.

  9. Retropharyngeal space - Wikipedia

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    Superiorly, the retropharyngeal space terminates at the base of the skull (more specifically, at the clivus [2]). [1] [5] Inferiorly, the true RPS terminates at a variable level along the upper thoracic spine with the fusion of alar fascia and visceral fascia; [1] sources either give the inferior termination of the true RPS as occurring at approximately the vertebral level of T4 [2] or at a ...

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