Description
The necks of the mandible (condylar necks) are the two constricted, inferior ends of the condylar processes of the mandible. On its corresponding side, each neck of mandible:
—is continuous superiorly with a mandibular condyle and continuous inferiorly with a ramus of mandibles;
—consists of a pterygoid fovea;
—provides an insertion site for a lateral pterygoid muscle and an attachment site for the lateral ligament of a temporomandibular joint.
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