Usually means: Gap between pterygoid and maxilla.
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  1. pterygomaxillary fissure: Dictionary.com
  2. Pterygomaxillary fissure: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. Pterygomaxillary fissure: TheFreeDictionary.com
  4. pterygomaxillary fissure: Wiktionary

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  1. Pterygomaxillary fissure: Legal dictionary

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Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. pterygomaxillary fissure: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. Pterygomaxillary fissure: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  4. Pterygomaxillary fissure: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (pterygomaxillary fissure)

noun:  (anatomy) A vertical gap between the lateral pterygoid plate of the pterygoid process of the sphenoid bone and the maxilla that descends at right angles to the medial end of the inferior orbital fissure and gives passage to part of the maxillary artery and vein.

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