Pterygopalatine Fossa and Palate - LO 4

4. What are the 5 muscles of the soft palate? Attachments? Efferent innervation? Actions?

D1 S12 Soft Palate muscles

Specific fibers of tensor veli palatini m. that wrap medially around the pterygoid hamulus and attach to the pharyngotympanic tube are sometimes referred to as the dilator tubae m.

The palatopharyngeus m. is divided into two fasciculi that are separated by the levator veli palatini m.

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