constrictor muscle of pharynx

Pharyngeal constrictor refers to one of the muscles that serves to constrict the pharynx. They include: Superior pharyngeal constrictor muscle Middle pharyngeal constrictor muscle Inferior pharyngeal constrictor muscle. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the constrictor muscle of pharynx is

Pharyngeal constrictor refers to one of the muscles that serves to constrict the pharynx. They include: Superior pharyngeal constrictor muscle Middle pharyngeal constrictor muscle Inferior pharyngeal constrictor muscle. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the constrictor muscle of pharynx is

It sits within the muscular system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the constrictor muscle of pharynx connects to

The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 2 kinds of connection. a kind of chordate pharyngeal muscle.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the constrictor muscle of pharynx. 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 pharyngeal constrictor muscle. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001569, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: chordate pharyngeal muscle.
• subtype: inferior pharyngeal constrictor, middle pharyngeal constrictor and superior pharyngeal constrictor.

Questions

Where is the constrictor muscle of pharynx?

It sits within the muscular system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the constrictor muscle of pharynx connect to?

A kind of: chordate pharyngeal muscle.

Is the constrictor muscle of pharynx the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.