Anatomy study note · Head and neck

Musculus uvulae

The small muscle inside the uvula, at the back of the soft palate.

Key points

• Hard palate → uvula.
• Vagus.
• Raises the uvula.
• 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 p. 1738
• 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

• Mylohyoid
• Nasal bone
• Occipital bone
• Occipital lobe
• Occipitofrontalis
• Oculomotor nerve
• Olfactory nerve
• Omohyoid
• Ophthalmic artery
• Ophthalmic nerve
• Ophthalmic veins
• Optic nerve

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