Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A long slender muscle, spreading out below, arising from the base of the styloid process of the temporal bone, and inserted partly into the constrictor muscles of the pharynx, and partly into the posterior border of the thyroid cartilage: it is innervated by the glossopharyngeus.
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Examples
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The stylopharyngeus, constrictor pharyngis superior, c.p. medius and c.p. inferior make up the muscles of the pharynx.
Muscles Part 2 2008
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The Muscular Branch (ramus stylopharyngeus) is distributed to the Stylopharyngeus.
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