Anatomy study note · Head and neck

Palatopharyngeus

A muscle running from the soft palate down the pharyngeal wall, under the palatopharyngeal arch.

Key points

• Palatine aponeurosis → thyroid cartilage.
• Vagus.
• Forms the palatopharyngeal arch; raises the pharynx/larynx.
• Pharyngeal wall muscles: 3rd and later arches.
• 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, 1759, 1785
• Inderbir Singh’s Human Embryology, ch. 9, PDF p. 125; ch. 12, PDF p. 173
• BRS Cell Biology & Histology, 7th ed., ch. 8, PDF pp. 135–144

More from the head and neck

• Parathyroid glands
• Parietal bone
• Parietal lobe
• Parotid gland
• Pharyngeal constrictors
• Pharynx
• Phrenic nerve
• Pineal body
• Piriform cortex
• Pituitary gland
• Platysma
• Pons

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