0 relating to the sphenoid bone (= a bone in the lower part of the skull)
1 used to describe a part of the body that is shaped like a wing
This structure resembles the posterior face of the inner part of the ascending ramus of the pterygoid in brachyopoids.
Anterolaterally, the epipterygoids (ep) form a pair of pillars extending from the dorsal surface of the pterygoid ventrally, and contact the parietal dorsally.
Part of the pterygoid overlaps and is fused to the anteromedial end of the pterygoid process of the left quadrate.
The developing superior head of the lateral pterygoid muscle attaches to the anterior portion of the fetal disk.
It also contains the submandibular and parotid salivary gland as well as the muscles of mastication (the masseter, pterygoid, and temporalis muscles).
The eusuchians continued this process with the interior nostrils now opening through an aperture in the pterygoid bones.
The quadrate bone has on its front edge a large wing-like expansion, touching the pterygoid.
The lateral wing of the pterygoid is incompletely and variably ossified.
