Medial Pterygoid
Elevates mandible, closes jaw, helps lateral pterygoid in moving jaw from side to side. Located in the head.
- Actions
- elevates mandible, closes jaw, helps lateral pterygoid in moving jaw from side to side
- Origin
- medial side of lateral pterygoid plate behind upper teeth (deep head); pyramidal process of palatine bone and maxillary tuberosity (superficial head)
- Insertion
- medial angle of mandible
- Innervation
- mandibular nerve [CNV3], medial pterygoid nerve
- Blood supply
- maxillary artery, pterygoid branches