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Stomatognathic System > Masticatory Muscles > Pterygoid Muscles
... > Musculoskeletal System > Muscles > Muscle, Striated > Muscle, Skeletal > Masticatory Muscles > Pterygoid Muscles
... > Tissues > Muscles > Muscle, Striated > Muscle, Skeletal > Masticatory Muscles > Pterygoid Muscles

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Pterygoid Muscles  

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Note

  • /growth: coord with MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; /embryol: coord with MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT if pertinent

Scope note

  • Two of the masticatory muscles: the internal, or medial, pterygoid muscle and external, or lateral, pterygoid muscle. Action of the former is closing the jaws and that of the latter is opening the jaws, protruding the mandible, and moving the mandible from side to side.

History note

  • 91(80); was see under MASTICATORY MUSCLES 1980-90

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011626

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