| 1. | It is biconcave in structure and attaches to the lateral pterygoid.
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| 2. | It surrounds the origin of the nerve to the medial pterygoid.
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| 3. | They are small pterygoid teeth, and no external ears.
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| 4. | The 2 parts of lateral pterygoid have different actions.
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| 5. | However, anomochilids lack both a chin groove and teeth on their pterygoid.
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| 6. | The pterygoid plexus of veins becomes the maxillary vein.
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| 7. | It may invade pterygoid muscles and mandible, resulting in pain and trismus.
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| 8. | The rear of the pterygoid has a secondary, rod-like, process.
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| 9. | They aid in the formation of the pterygoid foss? and the inferior orbital fissures.
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| 10. | Some vortex veins drain into the inferior orbital vein which drains into the pterygoid plexus.
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