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MAMMALIAN PHENOTYPE - ANNOTATIONS

The Mouse Adult Gross Anatomy Ontology and Mammalian Phenotype Ontology are downloaded weekly from the Mouse Genome Informatics databases at Jackson Laboratories (ftp://ftp.informatics.jax.org/pub/reports/index.html). For more information about these ontologies, see the MGI Publications Page at http://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/other/publications.shtml.

Term:abnormal pterygoid muscle morphology
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Definition:any structural anomaly of the muscles descending from the sphenoid bone to the lower jaw including the internal, or medial, pterygoid muscle and external, or lateral, pterygoid muscle; the 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



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  mammalian phenotype 5407
    muscle phenotype 199
      abnormal muscle morphology 98
        abnormal skeletal muscle morphology 24
          abnormal facial muscle morphology 0
            abnormal masticatory muscle morphology 0
              abnormal pterygoid muscle morphology 0
                absent pterygoid muscle 0
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