| Palatine aponeurosis | |
|---|---|
 Dissection of the muscles of the palate from behind. | |
| Details | |
| Identifiers | |
| Latin | aponeurosis palatina |
| TA98 | A05.2.01.101 |
| TA2 | 2127 |
| FMA | 49429 |
| Anatomical terminology | |
The palatine aponeurosis a thin, firm, fibrous lamella[1] which gives strength[2] and support to soft palate.[3] It serves as the insertion for the tensor veli palatini and levator veli palatini, and the origin for the musculus uvulae, palatopharyngeus, and palatoglossus.[4]
The palatine aponeurosis is attached to the posterior margin of the hard palate.[2][5] It is thicker anteriorly and thiner posteriorly. Posteriorly, it blends with the posterior muscular part of the soft palate. Posteroinferiorly, it presents a cruved free margin from which the uvula is suspended.[2] Laterally, it is continuous with the pharyngeal aponeurosis.[1]
- ^ a b Gray, Henry (1918). Gray's Anatomy (20th ed.). p. 1139.
- ^ a b c Moore, Keith L.; Dalley, Arthur F.; Agur, Anne M. R. (2017). Essential Clinical Anatomy. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 943. ISBN 978-1496347213.
- ^ Sauerland, Eberhardt K.; Patrick W. Tank; Tank, Patrick W. (2005). Grant's dissector. Hagerstown, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 199. ISBN 0-7817-5484-4.
- ^ Anne M. R. Agur; Moore, Keith L. (2006). Essential Clinical Anatomy (Point (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)). Hagerstown, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 553. ISBN 0-7817-6274-X.
- ^ Gray, Henry (1918). Gray's Anatomy (20th ed.). p. 1139.