Muscular system
Inferior pharyngeal constrictor
Constrictor inferior pharyngis
- System
- Muscular system
- Side
- Left and right
- Part of
- Pharyngeal muscles
DescriptionUnreviewed
The Inferior pharyngeal constrictor, the thickest of the three constrictors, arises from the sides of the cricoid and thyroid cartilage.
Similarly to the superior and middle pharyngeal constrictor muscles, it is innervated by the vagus nerve (cranial nerve X), specifically, by branches from the pharyngeal plexus and by neuronal branches from the recurrent laryngeal nerve.
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Names
- Latin
- Constrictor inferior pharyngis
- English
- Inferior pharyngeal constrictor
- French
- Constricteur inférieur du pharynx
- Spanish
- Constrictor inferior de la faringe
- Portuguese
- Constritor inferior da faringe