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Descriptor English: Pterygoid Muscles
Descriptor Spanish: Músculos Pterigoideos
Descriptor músculos pterigoideos
Scope note: Dos de los músculos masticadores: el músculo pterigoideo interno o medial y el músculo pterigoideo externo o lateral. La acción del primero es el cierre de las mandíbulas y la del segundo es su abertura, así como el movimiento hacia delante y hacia los lados de la mandíbula.
Descriptor Portuguese: Músculos Pterigoides
Descriptor French: Muscles ptérygoïdiens
Entry term(s): Muscle, Pterygoid
Muscles, Pterygoid
Pterygoid Muscle
Tree number(s): A02.633.567.600.700
A14.530.790
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011626
Scope note: Two of the masticatory muscles: the internal, or medial, pterygoid muscle and external, or lateral, pterygoid muscle. Action of the former is closing the jaws and that of the latter is opening the jaws, protruding the mandible, and moving the mandible from side to side.
Annotation: /growth: coord with MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; /embryol: coord with MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT if pertinent
Allowable Qualifiers: AB abnormalities
AH anatomy & histology
BS blood supply
CH chemistry
CY cytology
DE drug effects
DG diagnostic imaging
EM embryology
EN enzymology
GD growth & development
IM immunology
IN injuries
IR innervation
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
PA pathology
PH physiology
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
RE radiation effects
SU surgery
TR transplantation
UL ultrastructure
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Facial Muscles (1966-1979)
Masticatory Muscles (1966-1979)
Muscles (1966-1979)
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under MASTICATORY MUSCLES 1980-90
History Note: 91(80); was see under MASTICATORY MUSCLES 1980-90
DeCS ID: 12061
Unique ID: D011626
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1979/03/12
Revision Date: 2008/07/08
Pterygoid Muscles - Preferred
Concept UI M0018080
Scope note Two of the masticatory muscles: the internal, or medial, pterygoid muscle and external, or lateral, pterygoid muscle. Action of the former is closing the jaws and that of the latter is opening the jaws, protruding the mandible, and moving the mandible from side to side.
Preferred term Pterygoid Muscles
Entry term(s) Muscle, Pterygoid
Muscles, Pterygoid
Pterygoid Muscle



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