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fleshy bundles from the inner aspect of the outer and only wing of the 

 pterygoid process below the level of the hamulus, (2) by tendinous 

 fascicles from the pjrramid of the palatine bone which form a long and 

 shiny fibrous lamina in the posteromedial surface of the muscle 

 reaching halfway between origin and insertion, and (3) from the 



Figure 4. — Rear view of the cranium (1, m. digastricus, venter posterior; 2, temporo- 

 mandibular capsule; 3, lig. stylomandibulare; 4, m. masseter; 5, m. stylohyoideus; 6, 

 mtermediate tendon; 7, m. pterygoideus medialis; 8, m. digastricus, venter anterior; 

 9, m. mylohyoideus; 10, m. tensor veli palatini; 11, m. levator veli palatini). 



