Usually means: Muscles assisting in jaw movement.
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  1. pterygoid: Merriam-Webster
  2. pterygoid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. pterygoid: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pterygoid: Wordnik
  5. Pterygoid: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  6. pterygoid: Wiktionary
  7. pterygoid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. pterygoid: Dictionary.com
  9. Pterygoid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Pterygoid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. pterygoid: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Pterygoid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. pterygoid: FreeDictionary.org
  14. pterygoid: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  15. pterygoid: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pterygoid: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. pterygoid: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. pterygoid: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (pterygoid)

adjective:  (anatomy) Of, pertaining to or lying in the region of the inferior part of the sphenoid bone of the vertebrate skull.
noun:  (anatomy) A pterygoid part (such as a bone, muscle, or nerve).

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