Pterygoid fossa























Pterygoid fossa

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Sphenoid bone. Upper and posterior surfaces. (Pterygoid fossa labeled at left.)

Details
Identifiers
Latin Fossa pterygoidea ossis sphenoidalis
TA A02.1.05.046
FMA 84970

Anatomical terms of bone
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The pterygoid fossa is an anatomical term for the fossa formed by the divergence of the lateral pterygoid plate and the medial pterygoid plate of the sphenoid bone.



Structure


The lateral and medial pteryoid plates (of the pterygoid process of the sphenoid bone) diverge behind and enclose between them a V-shaped fossa, the pterygoid fossa. This fossa faces posteriorly, and contains the medial pterygoid muscle and the tensor veli palatini muscle.




Pterygoid fossa



See also



  • Pterygoid fovea

  • Scaphoid fossa

  • Pterygoid process



References


This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 151 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)
















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