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→‎Nasopharynx: salpingopalatine muscle makes up the salpingopalatine fold, the reference says as much
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Two folds arise from the cartilaginous opening:
* the '''salpingopharyngeal fold''', a vertical fold of mucous membrane extending from the inferior part of the torus and containing the [[salpingopharyngeus muscle]].
* the '''salpingopalatine fold''', a smaller fold, in front of the salpingopharyngeal fold, extending from the superior part of the torus to the palate and containing the '''salpingopalatine muscle'''.<ref name="test">{{cite journal| vauthors = Simkins CS |title=Functional anatomy of the Eustachian tube |journal=Archives of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery |date=November 1943 |volume=38 |issue=5 |page=479 |doi=10.1001/archotol.1943.00670040495009|quote=The anterior fold of the torus is made by a few delicate fibers of muscle which [...] I have referred to the muscle as the salpingopalatine muscle.}}</ref> The [[tensor veli palatini]] is lateral to theand [[levator andveli doespalatini]] notare contributelateral to the fold, sinceand thedo originnot is deep to the cartilaginous openingcontribute.
 
===Oropharynx===