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lateral pterygoid muscle

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Pharyngeal arch 1 muscle that participates in oral/pharyngeal behaviors, is innervated by the lateral pterygoid nerve branches, and attaches to the condylar process of the mandible and temporomandibular joint (TMJ) capsule, and the cranial base. [ MFMO:0000074 ]

Synonyms: musculus pterygoideus lateralis lateral pteregoid muscle lateral pteregoid pterygoideus lateral musculus pterygoides lateralis pterygoideus externus pterygoideus lateral muscle pterygoideus externus muscle musculus pterygoideus externus m. pterygoideus externus m. pterygoideus lateralis external pterygoid muscle lateral pterygoid

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

database cross reference
Subsets

pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

latin term
musculus pterygoideus lateralis [ FEED:rd http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_pterygoid_muscle ]

latin term
musculus pterygoideus externus [ FEED:rd http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_pterygoid_muscle ]

actions notes

only masticatory muscle that depresses mandible (opens jaw)

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Musculuspterygoideuslateralis.png

external definition

Pharyngeal arch 1 muscle that participates in oral/pharyngeal behaviors, is innervated by the lateral pterygoid nerve branches, and attaches to the condylar process of the mandible and TMJ capsule, and the cranial base.[FEED]

has broad synonym

pterygoid lateralis

id

UBERON:0006719

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606

see also

https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/539