• Palatal process of maxilla
  
  
• Horinzontal plate of palatine bone

   

• Greater palatine artery from maxillary

• Correspond to artery
• Pterygoid plexus
• Pharyngeal plexus

• Maxillary nerve
• Greater palatine
• Nasopalatine

• Retropharyngeal nodes
• Deep cervical nodes

• Palatine aponeurosis
• Attached muscles

• Lesser palatine from maxillary artery
• Ascending palatine from facial artery
• Palatine branches of ascending pharyngeal

• Pharyngeal venous plexus
• Pterygoid venous plexus

• Retropharyngeal nodes
• Upper deep cervical nodes

Muscle

Origin

Insertion

Action

Tensor palati

• Scaphoid fossa
• Lateral side of auditory tube
• Spine of sphenoid

• Palatine aponeurosis

• Tense palatine aponeurosis

Levator Palati

• Inferior surface of petrous temporal bone
• Medial side of auditory tube

• Palatine aponeurosis

• Pull palate upward and backward

Palatoglossus

• Palatine aponeurosis

• Side of tongue interdigitating with styloglossus

• Raises tongue
• Narrow transverse diameter of isthmus

Palatopharyngeus

• Anterior head from hard palate and palatine aponeurosis
• Posterior head from palatine aponeurosis

• Lateral wall of pharynx
• Merge with inferior constrictor
• Thyroid lamina

• Elevates larynx and pharynx

Muscularis uvulae

• Posterior nasal spine of palatine bone

• Mucosa of uvula

• Palatopharyngeal muscle