Anatomy study note · Head and neck

Tensor veli palatini

A soft-palate muscle whose tendon hooks round the pterygoid hamulus and spreads as the palatine aponeurosis.

Key points

• Sphenoid spine + auditory tube → palatine aponeurosis (round the hamulus).
• V3 (exception!).
• Tenses the soft palate.
• From the first (mandibular) pharyngeal arch → mandibular nerve.
• 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. 120, 122, 125
• BRS Cell Biology & Histology, 7th ed., ch. 8, PDF pp. 135–144; ch. 16, PDF p. 285

More from the head and neck

• Thalamus
• Thyroarytenoid and vocalis
• Thyrohyoid
• Thyroid cartilage
• Thyroid gland
• Tongue
• Trigeminal nerve
• Trochlear nerve
• Veins of the face and scalp
• Ventricles of the brain
• Vertebral and basilar arteries
• Vestibulocochlear nerve

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