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medial pterygoid plate
Structure:
- the smaller & more medial of the 2 bony plates extending inferiorly from the junction of the body & greater wing of the sphenoid bone on either side
- it ends inferiorly in the pterygoid hamulus
General
bony plate
References
Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999
Component-of
sphenoid bone