Thepterygoid is a paired bone forming part of the palate of manyvertebrates, behind thepalatine bones.[1]
It is a flat and thin lamina, united to the medial side of thepterygoid process of the sphenoid bone, and to the perpendicular lamina of the palatine bone.[2]
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