Muscle Pterygoid Internus

**Internal pterygoid muscle**

- (Latin musculus pterygoideoepterygoidius, from Greek pýργος - workhouse and Greek -krygós / al - bird), m. pirgeoidopharyngeus (BNA, JNA) - muscle of the pharynx. Part of the masticatory apparatus, it has a flat triangular tendon that runs from the canine fossa down along the medial surface of the pterygoid. process of the sphenoid bone and extends over the lateral end of the digastric plate of the occipital bone to the internal projection of the transverse process of the 3rd cervical vertebra. By contracting, it allows you to raise the tip of the tongue and smooth out the severity of the fossa in the middle part of the epiglottis and