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Illustration - Constrictors of the pharynx
Pterygomandibular raphe
Pterygomandibular raphe
Pronunciation
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Other Terms:
Raphe pterygomandibularis, Raphé ptérygo-mandibulaire
Raphe pterygomandibularis, Raphé ptérygo-mandibulaire
Description
The pterygomandibular raphe is the tendinous intersection, or seam, between the superior pharyngeal constrictor and the middle portion of the buccinator muscle. It attaches to the pterygoid hamulus superiorly and the posterior end of the mylohyoid line inferiorly. This forms the junction where the deep fourth branchial arch muscles of the pharyngeal wall and the superficial second branchial arch muscles of the face met at the oropharyngeal boundary.
Latin
Raphe pterygomandibularis
French
Raphé ptérygo-mandibulaire
Structural Label Key
- Anterior belly of the digastricus
- Branchial arch muscles
- Buccinator
- Cricothyroid muscle
- First branchial arch muscles
- Fourth branchial arch muscles
- Hyoglossus
- Hyoid
- Inferior pharyngeal constrictor
- Larynx
- Levator veli palatini
- Mandible
- Maxilla
- Middle pharyngeal constrictor
- Muscles - developmental approach
- Muscles of the head
- Mylohyoid
- Pterygomandibular raphe
- Second branchial arch muscles
- Skull
- Somitic muscles of the head
- Styloglossus
- Stylopharyngeus
- Superior pharyngeal constrictor
- Tensor veli palatini
- Third branchial arch muscles
- Thyrohyoid membrane
- Thyroid cartilage
- Tongue muscles
- Zygomatic
