Usually means: Hook-like projection, pterygoid bone.
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Definitions from Wikipedia (Pterygoid hamulus)

noun:  The pterygoid hamulus is a hook-like process at the lower extremity of the medial pterygoid plate of the sphenoid bone of the skull.


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