Usually means: Fibrous band, connects jaw muscles.
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  1. pterygomandibular raphe: Dictionary.com
  2. Pterygomandibular raphe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. pterygomandibular raphe: Wiktionary

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  1. pterygomandibular raphe: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (pterygomandibular raphe)

noun:  (anatomy) A fibrous seam that descends from the pterygoid hamulus of the medial pterygoid plate to the mylohyoid line of the mandible and that separates and gives rise to the superior pharyngeal constrictor and the buccinator.

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