stylopharyngeus

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  1. A long slender muscle, spreading out below, arising from the base of the styloid process of the temporal bone, and inserted partly into the constrictor muscles of the pharynx, and partly into the posterior border of the thyroid cartilage: it is innervated by the glossopharyngeus.

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  1. New Latin, from Latin stylus, properly stilus, a style, + Greek φάρυγξ (φάρυγγ-), the throat.
 

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