Palatoglossus muscle

The palatoglossus (Latin for " palate - tongue muscle ") is a skeletal muscle of the head. It originates as a splinter group of the musculus transversus linguae and radiates into the palatal aponeurosis. He forms the muscular basis of the anterior palatal arch ( arcus palatoglossus ). The muscle lifts the base of the tongue to, closes during swallowing the Mundenge ( isthmus of the fauces ) and lowers the palate.

The innervation via the vagus nerve, and possibly also on the radix of the cranial accessory nerve, whereas other authors give the pharyngeal plexus of glossopharyngeal nerve to.