Palatine aponeurosis

Palatine aponeurosis
Dissection of the muscles of the palate from behind.
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Identifiers
Latin	aponeurosis palatina
TA98	A05.2.01.101
TA2	2127
FMA	49429
Anatomical terminology [ edit on Wikidata]

The palatine aponeurosis a thin, firm, fibrous lamella ^[1] which gives strength ^[2] and support to soft palate. ^[3] It serves as the insertion for the tensor veli palatini and levator veli palatini, and the origin for the musculus uvulae, palatopharyngeus, and palatoglossus. ^[4]

The palatine aponeurosis is attached to the posterior margin of the hard palate. ^{[2] [5]} It is thicker anteriorly and thinner posteriorly. Posteriorly, it blends with the posterior muscular part of the soft palate. Posteroinferiorly, it presents a cruved free margin from which the uvula is suspended. ^[2] Laterally, it is continuous with the pharyngeal aponeurosis. ^[1]

See also

• Aponeurosis

References

1. Gray, Henry (1918). Gray's Anatomy (20th ed.). p. 1139.
2. Moore, Keith L.; Dalley, Arthur F.; Agur, Anne M. R. (2017). Essential Clinical Anatomy. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 943. ISBN   978-1496347213.
3. Sauerland, Eberhardt K.; Patrick W. Tank; Tank, Patrick W. (2005). Grant's dissector . Hagerstown, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p.  199. ISBN   0-7817-5484-4.
4. Anne M. R. Agur; Moore, Keith L. (2006). Essential Clinical Anatomy (Point (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)). Hagerstown, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 553. ISBN   0-7817-6274-X.
5. Gray, Henry (1918). Gray's Anatomy (20th ed.). p. 1139.