"Pterygoid Muscles" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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.
Descriptor ID |
D011626
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MeSH Number(s) |
A02.633.567.600.700 A14.530.790
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Concept/Terms |
Pterygoid Muscles- Pterygoid Muscles
- Muscle, Pterygoid
- Muscles, Pterygoid
- Pterygoid Muscle
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2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Pterygoid Muscles" by people in Profiles.
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Proposal for the 8th edition of the AJCC/UICC staging system for nasopharyngeal cancer in the era of intensity-modulated radiotherapy. Cancer. 2016 Feb 15; 122(4):546-58.
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Jaw dysfunction related to pterygoid and masseter muscle dosimetry after radiation therapy in children and young adults with head-and-neck sarcomas. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2012 Jan 01; 82(1):355-60.
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Development of a mandibular motion simulator for total joint replacement. J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2011 Jan; 69(1):66-79.
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The pterygopalatine fossa: postoperative MR imaging appearance. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2000 Aug; 21(7):1315-9.