Musculus uvulae

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Musculus uvulae

Left palatine bone. Posterior aspect. Enlarged.

Gray's	subject #243 1139
Origin	hard palate
Insertion	palatine aponeurosis
Artery:
Nerve:	pharyngeal branch of the vagus nerve
Action:
Dorlands /Elsevier	m_22/12551322

The musculus uvulae (azygos uvulae) is a muscle of the soft palate.

1 Origin and insertion
2 Innervation
3 Additional images
4 External links

[edit] Origin and insertion

It arises from the posterior nasal spine of the palatine bones and from the palatine aponeurosis.

It descends to be inserted into the uvula.

[edit] Innervation

It is innervated by the pharyngeal branch of the vagus nerve via the pharyngeal plexus.

[edit] Additional images

Base of skull. Inferior surface.

[edit] External links

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List of muscles of head and neck: the head

Extraocular (CN III, IV, VI)

oblique (inferior, superior) - rectus (superior, inferior, medial, lateral) - levator palpebrae superioris (superior tarsal)

Mastication (CN V3)

masseter - temporalis - pterygoid (lateral, medial)

Facial (CN VII)

Mouth/throat (CN IX, X, XI)
(except TVP=V3)

Soft palate	veli palatini (tensor, levator) - musculus uvulae - palatopharyngeus (to pharnyx) - palatoglossus (to tongue)

Pharynx	pharyngeal constrictor (superior, middle, inferior) - longitudinal (stylopharyngeus, salpingopharyngeus)

Larynx	cricothyroid - cricoarytenoid (posterior, lateral) - arytenoid (oblique arytenoid/aryepiglottic, transverse arytenoid) - thyroarytenoid (vocal, thyroepiglottic)