palatal muscle

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 human body.

Where the palatal muscle is

It sits in the head, within the muscular and digestive systems. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the palatal muscle connects to

The atlas records 11 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of craniocervical region, digestive system and musculature, and 1 more.

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, digestive system, musculature and soft palate.
• A kind of: organ and skeletal muscle organ, vertebrate.
• subtype: levator veli palatini, palatoglossus muscle, palatopharyngeus muscle, tensor veli palatini and uvular muscle.

Questions

Where is the palatal muscle?

It sits in the head, within the muscular and digestive systems. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What does the palatal muscle connect to?

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

Is the palatal muscle 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.