Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pterygoid_muscle

1 sense of pterygoid muscle

Sense 1
pterygoid muscle -- (muscle descending from the sphenoid bone to the lower jaw)
       => skeletal muscle, striated muscle -- (a muscle that is connected at either or both ends to a bone and so move parts of the skeleton; a muscle that is characterized by transverse stripes)