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medial pterygoid nerve

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.82 in modern English

Syllables
me-di-al ptery-goid n-erve
IPA
33
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
5
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A branch of the mandibular nerve that is distributed to the medial pterygoid muscle, tensor tympani, and tensor veli palatini.

Inflected Forms

medial pterygoid nerves (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

auriculotemporal nerve buccal nerve deep temporal nerve inferior alveolar nerve lateral pterygoid nerve lingual nerve masseteric nerve

Synonyms

internal pterygoid nerve nerve to the medial pterygoid muscle

Rhymes With

serve reserve deserve nerve preserve curve observe velocity curve deep temporal nerve conserve swerve verve

Questions

What does medial pterygoid nerve mean?
A branch of the mandibular nerve that is distributed to the medial pterygoid muscle, tensor tympani, and tensor veli palatini.

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