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Definition of Pterygoid plexus
1. Noun. A plexus of veins draining the region of the pterygoid muscles and draining into the internal maxillary and anterior facial veins.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pterygoid Plexus
Literary usage of Pterygoid plexus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"... which communicates through the pterygoid plexus with the cavernous sinus by
branches which pass through the foramen ovale and foramen lacerum (see p. ..."
2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"... from the pterygoid plexus. It is also joined by the inferior ... which communicates
through the pterygoid plexus with the cavernous sinus by branches ..."
3. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"The middle temporal vein derived from a plexus in the temporal fossa, from which
the temporal veins (passing to the pterygoid plexus) also issue, ..."
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