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sphenoid bone pterygoid process
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- UBERON:0004649
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- processus pterygoideus ossis sphenoidalis
- pterygoid plate
- pterygoid process
- pterygoid process of sphenoid bone
- pterygoid processes
- pterygoid processus
- Definition
- the process projecting downward from either side of the sphenoid bone, in vertebrates divided into two plates, an inner and an outer (sometimes called the lateral and medial); the posterior nares pass through the space, called the pterygoid fossa, between the processes 0-683-40008-8
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