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Muscles of the soft palate, seen from the inner side and from behind.

Translated by: Ronald A. Bergman, PhD and Adel K. Afifi, MD, MS
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a) Sphenoid bone, body.
b) Temporal bone, petrous partion.
c) Mandible, condyle.
d) Mandible, ramus.
e) Hard palate.
f) Pterygoid process.
g) Pterygoid hamulus.
h) Nasal choanae.
i) Auditory tube.

1. m. external pterygoid.
2. m. levator veli palatini.
3. m. tensor veli palatini.
4. m. uvulae.
5. m palatopharyngeus.