A palatine muscles which round around the pterygoid hamulus, forms palatine aponeurosis:
Correct Answer: Tensor veli palatini
Description: Tensor veti palatini is a thin triangular muscle of soft palate.
It originates from the lateral side of auditory tube and base of skull
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form a delicate tendon which winds round the pterygoid hamulus
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forms palatine aponeurosis
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finally attached to hard palate.
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