the back of the mouth’s roof. It works with the, the muscle that acts as the soft palate’s elevator, in preventing food or drink from entering the part of the throat directly behind it. The tensor veli palatini’s tendon glides around a hook-like process of the medial pterygoid plate...
From these points of origin, the fibers of the medial pterygoid form a muscle that is quadrilateral in shape as it crosses the jaw. This muscle, angling slightly outward and backward as it descends, attaches along the inner surface of the angle and ramus of the mandible. These are, respecti...
Medial view of the left side of the virtual skull of OMNH 58340 with the vomer present (10.1), allowing a view of the articulation of the vomer with the pterygoid, and with the palatine and vomer removed (10.2), allowing a view of the joints between the maxilla, lacrimal, prefrontal, ju...
Here’s the whole hill of beans in ventral view: this time you can see the parasphenoid rostrum going down the midline, with the vomers fused onto its anterior end; and the pterygoids attached near the base of this process, and the palatines extending anteriorly from them. In this view,...
The pterygopalatine fossa is a depression in the human skull that is named for its location at the pterygoid process of the...
The pterygopalatine fossa is a depression in the human skull that is named for its location at the pterygoid process of the...
The palatine bone also helps to form thepterygopalatine fossaas well as thepterygoid fossa. A fossa is basically a depressed area within the human body. Thepterygopalatine fossais found in the skull and is held in place by the roots of themaxillary nerveof the face. Thepterygoid fossacontai...
the fused vomers, parasphenoid rostrum and braincase, all fused together. Alongside this element are the palatines and pterygoids, and to the right of those are the midline supporting cartilage and mesethesmoid ossification. Behind the braincase are the first three and half vertebrae of the ...