Soft Palate Made Simple: Muscles, Aponeurosis, And Clinical Significance

Soft Palate Made Simple: Muscles, Aponeurosis, And Clinical Significance

Describe external features, muscles, nerve supply & blood supply of soft palate (or) Tensor palatine muscle (or) Muscles of soft palate
Answer:

Soft Palate:

• It is movable, muscular fold
• It separates the nasopharynx from the oropharynx

Soft Palate External Features:

• It has two surfaces- anterior & posterior, two borders- superior & inferior

Soft palate contains:

1. Palatine aponeurosis
2. Five pairs of palatine muscle
3. Nerves & vessels
4. Palatine glands

Soft Palate Muscles:

Soft Palate Blood supply:

Soft Palate Nerves supply: