See Also: pterygoid muscles(medicine)
Pterygoid(medicine)
pterygoid pit(medicine)
pterygoid(dictionary)
pterygoid tubercle(medicine)
pterygoid hamulus(medicine)
pterygoid process(medicine)
pterygoid laminae(medicine)
pterygoid plexus(medicine)
pterygoid notch(medicine)

nebelwerfer (iou) and pterygoid muscles (medicine)


nebelwerfer (iou)



nebelwerfer noun. M20.
[German, from Nebel mist, fog + Werfer thrower, mortar, from werfen to throw.]
A six-barrelled rocket mortar used by the German forces in the war of 1939-45.

pterygoid muscles (medicine)


pterygoid muscles


Two of the masticatory muscles: the internal, or medial, pterygoid muscle and external, or lateral, pterygoid muscle. Action of the former is closing the jaws and that of the latter is opening the jaws, protruding the mandible, and moving the mandible from side to side.