pterygoid muscle

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   muscle descending from the sphenoid bone to the lower jaw

   Broaderskeletal muscle

Questions about pterygoid muscle

What does pterygoid muscle mean?

pterygoid muscle means "muscle descending from the sphenoid bone to the lower jaw".

Is pterygoid muscle a common word?

pterygoid muscle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.