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Longitudinal muscle from styloid process. Descends between superior and middle constrictors. Elevates pharynx during swallowing.
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Stylopharyngeus muscle: magnified reference view with a numbered learning marker. The complete original plate is available in the next view.
Image: Gray’s Anatomy (1918); illustrator attribution on original plate · Source / original · Public domainNumbered markers and focused views are Mediveerse learning overlays; the original reference is linked above.
Stylopharyngeus muscle
Understand what you see.
Elevates and widens the pharynx during swallowing.
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How to recognise it.
- Longitudinal muscle from styloid process
- Descends between superior and middle constrictors
- Elevates pharynx during swallowing
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Examiner-style prompts: identify the structure, explain its relations, then answer the applied follow-up. These are revision questions, not authenticated past papers.
01Identify stylopharyngeus muscle and give its main role.+
Longitudinal muscle from styloid process. Descends between superior and middle constrictors. Elevates pharynx during swallowing. Elevates and widens the pharynx during swallowing.
02What is its distinctive nerve supply?+
Glossopharyngeal IX; it is the standard exception to vagal supply of most pharyngeal muscles.
03Through which interval does it enter the pharyngeal wall?+
Between superior and middle constrictors, accompanied by glossopharyngeal relations.
04Point out three important relations and explain their significance.+
Styloid origin; Constrictor interval; Pharyngeal insertion. Elevates and widens the pharynx during swallowing. Use the reference plate to locate the region; the relationship map organises the associations and is not drawn to scale.
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Credited anatomical plates, microscopy and university teaching references. Individual image credits appear below the viewer. Historical plates can use older terminology; use the lesson text for current names.