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  2. Pterygoid hamulus - Wikipedia

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    The pterygoid hamulus is a hook-like process at the lower extremity of the medial pterygoid plate of the sphenoid bone ... "Anatomy diagram: 05287.011-1". Roche ...

  3. Pterygoid processes of the sphenoid - Wikipedia

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    The medial pterygoid plate (or medial pterygoid lamina) of the sphenoid bone is a horse-shoe shaped process that arises from its underside.. It is narrower and longer than the lateral pterygoid plate and curves lateralward at its lower extremity into a hook-like process, the pterygoid hamulus, around which the tendon of the tensor veli palatini glides.

  4. Pterygomandibular raphe - Wikipedia

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    The pterygomandibular raphe (pterygomandibular fold [1] or pterygomandibular ligament) is a thin [2] tendinous band of buccopharyngeal fascia.It is attached superiorly to the pterygoid hamulus of the medial pterygoid plate, and inferiorly to the posterior end of the mylohyoid line of the mandible.

  5. Sphenoid bone - Wikipedia

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    Each medial pterygoid plate (except its hamulus) is ossified in membrane, and its center probably appears about the ninth or tenth week; the hamulus becomes chondrified during the third month, and almost at once ossifies (Fawcett). The medial joins the lateral pterygoid plate about the sixth month.

  6. Body of sphenoid bone - Wikipedia

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    The lateral surfaces of the body are united with the greater wings of the sphenoid and the medial pterygoid plates. Above the attachment of each greater wing is a broad groove, curved something like the italic letter f; it lodges the internal carotid artery and the cavernous sinus , and is named the carotid sulcus .

  7. Pterygomandibular space - Wikipedia

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    Diagram showing left medial and lateral pterygoid muscles. Part of the zygomatic arch and the ramus of the mandible have been cut away. The pterygomandibular space lies between the lateral surface of medial pterygoid and the medial surface of the mandibular ramus.

  8. Pterygoid bone - Wikipedia

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    Skull diagram of Champsosaurus, showing the pterygoid bone in red-violet (visible in inferior view at lower right and posterior to the ectopterygoid bone in lateral view at top) The pterygoid is a paired bone forming part of the palate of many vertebrates , behind the palatine bones .

  9. Superior pharyngeal constrictor muscle - Wikipedia

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    The sites of origin of the muscles collectively are the pterygoid hamulus (and occasionally the adjoining posterior margin of the medial pterygoid plate) anteriorly, (the posterior margin of) the pterygomandibular raphe, the posterior extremity of the mylohyoid line of mandible, and (negligibly) the side of the tongue.