Anatomy study note · Head and neck

Levator veli palatini

A soft-palate muscle that raises the soft palate in swallowing and speech.

Key points

• Petrous temporal + auditory tube → palatine aponeurosis.
• Vagus (pharyngeal plexus).
• Elevates the soft palate.
• Arch muscles keep the nerve of their arch.
• Skeletal muscle: multinucleated, peripheral nuclei, striated.
• Epimysium → perimysium → endomysium.

The full note in the atlas also covers

Origin · Insertion · Action · Nerve supply · Histology · Development

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Written from

• Snell’s Clinical Anatomy by Regions, 10th ed., ch. 12, PDF pp. 1738–1739
• Inderbir Singh’s Human Embryology, ch. 9, PDF pp. 122, 125–126
• BRS Cell Biology & Histology, 7th ed., ch. 8, PDF pp. 135–144; ch. 16, PDF p. 285

More from the head and neck

• Lips and oral cavity
• Longus colli and longus capitis
• Mandible
• Mandibular nerve
• Masseter
• Maxilla
• Maxillary artery
• Maxillary nerve
• Medial pterygoid
• Medial rectus
• Medulla oblongata
• Midbrain

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