pterygoid : Idioms & Phrases
Pterygoid bone
(Anat.) , a bone which corresponds to the inner plate of the pterygoid process of the human skull, but which, in all vertebrates below mammals, is not connected with the posterior nares, but serves to connect the palatine bones with the point of suspension of the lower jaw.
Webster 1913
pterygoid muscle
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noun muscle descending from the sphenoid bone to the lower jaw
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pterygoid plexus
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noun a plexus of veins draining the region of the pterygoid muscles and draining into the internal maxillary and anterior facial veins
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Pterygoid process
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noun two bony processes descending from the body of the sphenoid bone
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(Anat.) , a process projecting downward from either side of the sphenoid bone, in man divided into two plates, an inner and an outer. The posterior nares pass through the space, called the pterygoid fossa, between the processes.