Pharyngeal constrictor

Pharyngeal constrictor
Pharyngeal constrictor
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Muscles of the pharynx and cheek.
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Muscles of the pharynx, viewed from behind, together with the associated vessels and nerves.
Gray's subject #244 1143
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Pharyngeal constrictor refers to one of the muscles that serves to constrict the pharynx.

They include:

v · d · eList of muscles of head and neck: the neck (TA A04.2, GA 4.387)
Cervical

CN VII (superficial, PC): platysma
CN XI (deep): sternocleidomastoid

C1–C6 (anterior): Prevertebral muscles: longus (capitis, colli)

C3–C8 (lateral): scalene (anterior, medius, posterior)
Suboccipital

C1: rectus capitis posterior (major, minor) · obliquus capitis (inferior, superior)

C1–C6 (anterior): Prevertebral muscles: rectus capitis (anterior, lateralis)
Suprahyoid
Infrahyoid/strap
Fasciae
Pharynx
pharyngeal constrictor (superior, middle, inferior) · longitudinal (stylopharyngeus, salpingopharyngeus)
Larynx

M: MUS, DF+DRCT

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noco(m, s, c)/cong(d)/tumr, sysi/epon, injr

proc, drug (M1A/3)

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