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Buccopharyngeal fascia

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Latin
  
Fascia buccopharyngea

FMA
  
55078

Dorlands /Elsevier
  
f_03/12354839

Buccopharyngeal fascia

TA
  
A04.1.04.010 A05.3.01.116

The buccopharyngeal fascia is a fascia in the head.

Parallel to the carotid sheath and along its medial aspect the pretracheal fascia gives off a thin lamina, the buccopharyngeal fascia, which closely invests the constrictor muscles of the pharynx and is continued forward from the constrictor pharyngis superior onto the buccinator.

It is attached to the prevertebral layer by loose connective tissue only, and thus an easily distended space, the retropharyngeal space, is found between them.

References

Buccopharyngeal fascia Wikipedia