Pterygoid hamulus

Pterygoid hamulus
Sphenoid bone. Anterior and inferior surfaces. (Hamulus labeled at bottom left.)
File:Gray194.png Sagittal section of skull. (Sphenoid is in yellow, and pterygoid hamulus labeled at bottom center.)
Details
Latin	hamulus pterygoideus
Identifiers
Dorlands /Elsevier	h_02/12407644
TA
TH	{{#property:P1694}}
TE	{{#property:P1693}}
FMA	{{#property:P1402}}
Anatomical terms of bone [[[d:|edit on Wikidata]]]

The pterygoid hamulus is a hook-like process at the lower extremity of the medial pterygoid plate of the sphenoid bone. Around this the tendon of the tensor veli palatini glides. It is the superior origin of the pterygomandibular raphe.

Additional images

• Gray187.png

  Base of skull. Inferior surface.

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  Left infratemporal fossa.

See also

• hamulus

References

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

External links

• Anatomy figure: 22:4b-05 at Human Anatomy Online, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
• Anatomy diagram: 05287.011-1 at Roche Lexicon - illustrated navigator, Elsevier
• Anatomy diagram: 25420.000-1 at Roche Lexicon - illustrated navigator, Elsevier
• Anatomy diagram: 34257.000-1 at Roche Lexicon - illustrated navigator, Elsevier
• lesson9 at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University) (nasalwallbones) (#12)
• Diagram at VCU.edu