Landmark · Skeletal system
Pterygoid hamulus
Hamulus pterygoideus
- System
- Skeletal system
- Regions
- Head
- Landmark on
- Sphenoid bone
DescriptionUnreviewed
The pterygoid hamulus is a hook-like process at the lower extremity of the medial pterygoid plate of the sphenoid bone. Around it glides the tendon of the tensor veli palatini. As well, it is the superior origin of the pterygomandibular raphe.
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Names
- Latin
- Hamulus pterygoideus
- English
- Pterygoid hamulus
- French
- Crochet ptérygoïdien
- Spanish
- Hámulo pterigoideo
- Portuguese
- Hâmulo pterigóide