• Source: Pterygoid fossa

The pterygoid fossa is an anatomical term for the fossa formed by the divergence of the lateral pterygoid plate and the medial pterygoid plate of the sphenoid bone.




Structure


The lateral and medial pterygoid plates (of the pterygoid process of the sphenoid bone) diverge behind and enclose between them a V-shaped fossa, the pterygoid fossa. This fossa faces posteriorly, and contains the medial pterygoid muscle and the tensor veli palatini muscle.




See also


Pterygoid fovea
Scaphoid fossa
Pterygoid process




References


This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 151 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

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• Gavial
• Pterygoid fossa
• Pterygopalatine fossa
• Pterygoid processes of the sphenoid
• Infratemporal fossa
• Fossa (anatomy)
• Nerve of pterygoid canal
• Scaphoid fossa
• Lateral pterygoid muscle
• Pterygoid canal
• Sphenoid bone