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Pterygoid process

noun
1.
Two bony processes descending from the body of the sphenoid bone.





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... that Watson has pictured (1948:828, Fig. 3) as separating his origins for anterior and posterior pterygoids. The posterior pterygoid, in turn, arose by tendons from the adjoining lateral ridge and from the pterygoid process of Romer and Price. Tendinous origins are indicated by the limitations of space in this area, by the strength of the ridges pictured and reported by Watson, and by the massiveness of the pterygoid process of ...
— The Adductor Muscles of the Jaw In Some Primitive Reptiles • Richard C. Fox


Words linked to "Pterygoid process" :   os sphenoidale, process, sphenoid bone, outgrowth, sphenoid, appendage


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