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Sentence Examples The distal end of the pterygoid contacts the squamosal dorsally and the quadrate medially. Jaw closing is the result of the action of the jaw elevators, i.e., masseter, temporalis and medial pterygoid muscles. The plates are separated below by an angular cleft, the pterygoid fissure, the margins of which are rough and articulate with the pyramidal process of the palatine. Posteriorly, the pterygoid thins to less than 1 mm in thickness. The posterior aspect of the lateral pterygoid plate may be joined to the angular spine of the greater wing by a pterygopetrosal ligament that may calcify. It curves laterally at its distal end into a hook-like process, the pterygoid hamulus, around which the tendon of the Tensor veli palatini glides. It may be formed of two superimposed layers and it may be more or less fused with the lateral pterygoid or send a fasciculus to the condylar process. The position usually occupied by the maxillary has been taken by the pterygoid bone. Characteristic of plethodontids, the new species has nasolabial grooves but no lungs or pterygoid bone. In mammals a secondary palate is formed by processes of the maxillary bones and the palatines, with the pterygoid bones reduced in importance. In this study, zygoma, pterygoid and regular platform implants were used. Computed tomography showed extensive pneumatization of the sphenoid sinus into the pterygoid process. The pterygoid and peribullar sinuses that form the cavity tend to be more developed in shallow water and riverine species than in pelagic Mysticeti. Examples from Classical Literature The left quadrate appears to be in place on the posterior prong of the pterygoid. There are no vomerine, palatine, or pterygoid teeth, such as are met with in Amphibia and Reptilia. Contraction of the anterior pterygoid when the jaw was in this position pulled the mandible forward and did not adduct it. When the jaw was adducted, the insertion of the anterior pterygoid was in a plane nearly level with the origin. Dorsally the pterygoid articulates with the basisphenoid, quadrate, and alisphenoid. Each also sends ventralwards a plate which meets an upgrowth from the pterygoid and acts as an alisphenoid. The palatine is well developed, the pterygoid is small and early fuses with the pterygoid process of the alisphenoid. Ossification follows in the mid-parts of the anterolateral arms and occurs last in the pterygoid pedicles. Small teeth occur on the palatine and the pterygoid in the upper jaw and on the dentary in the lower jaw. The squamosal is drawn out into a postglenoid process, and the hamular process of the pterygoid is prominent. The nasal lacks a maxillary process, and the medial ramus of the pterygoid lacks a bony connection to the protic. These effusions occur most frequently about the knees, the elbows, and the pterygoid muscles of the jaw. In sphenodon the anterior pterygoid muscle arises from the dorsal surface of the pterygoid bone and from the adjacent bones. The palatopterygoid soon becomes segmented into a transversely placed palatine, and a longitudinally placed pterygoid. The oblique division into vomer in front and pterygoid bone behind is shown by Goldfuss in his original figure of Scaphognathus. In the skull the quadrate is immovably fixed and united to the pterygoid. The external border of the pterygoid sinus is nearly straight. Laterally each is united with the pterygoid and opisthotic of its side. Find more words! 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