Dictionary   FastHealth  Email This!

 


pterygoid fissure

n :  the angular cleft separating the medial and lateral pterygoid plates of each pterygoid process - called also pterygoid notch  .
 
 

 
Published under license with Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.  © 1997-2004.







               



               



Lillian M. Hudspeth Memorial Hospital (Sonora, Texas - Sutton County)