Anatomy study note · Head and neck

Salpingopharyngeus

A longitudinal pharyngeal muscle from the auditory tube, under the salpingopharyngeal fold.

Key points

• Auditory tube → blends with palatopharyngeus.
• Vagus.
• Raises the pharynx.
• 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. 1753, 1759
• 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

• Scalenus anterior
• Scalenus medius and posterior
• Sclera
• Skull
• Sphenoid bone
• Sternocleidomastoid
• Sternohyoid
• Sternothyroid
• Stylohyoid
• Stylopharyngeus
• Subclavian artery
• Subclavian vein

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