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pterygoid hamulus
The inferior hook shaped extremity of the medial plate of the pterygoid process.
Function: Serves as a pulley(trochlea) for the tendon of the tensor veli palatini(tensor veli palati) muscle.
Related
mandible (lower jaw bone, submaxilla)
muscle
General
bony process
References
Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.
Component-of
head