palatal muscle in dogs

The muscles of the palate are the glossopalatine, palatoglossus, levator palati(ni), musculus uvulae, palatopharyngeus, and tensor palati(ni). Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the palatal muscle is

The muscles of the palate are the glossopalatine, palatoglossus, levator palati(ni), musculus uvulae, palatopharyngeus, and tensor palati(ni). The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the palatal muscle is

It sits in the head, within the muscular and digestive systems. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What the palatal muscle connects to

The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of craniocervical region, craniocervical region musculature and soft palate.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the palatal muscle. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as muscle of palate, musculi palati mollis et faucium, palatal muscle, palate muscle and palatine muscle. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0003682, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: craniocervical region, craniocervical region musculature and soft palate.
• A kind of: digestive system element and skeletal muscle organ, vertebrate.
• subtype: palatoglossus muscle.

Questions

Where is the palatal muscle?

It sits in the head, within the muscular and digestive systems. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What does the palatal muscle connect to?

Part of: craniocervical region, craniocervical region musculature and soft palate.

Is the palatal muscle the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.