Between the tendon and the hamulus is a small bursa. From Wordnik.com. [XI. Splanchnology. 2b. The Fauces] Reference
The volar surface presents, at its lower and ulnar side, a curved, hook-like process, the hamulus, directed forward and lateralward. From Wordnik.com. [II. Osteology. 6b. The Hand. 1. The Carpus] Reference
About 1 cm. in front of the hamulus and 1 cm. medial to the last molar tooth of the maxilla is the greater palatine foramen through which the descending palatine vessels and the anterior palatine nerve emerge. From Wordnik.com. [XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 2. Surface Markings of Special Regions of the Head and Neck] Reference
It is attached, medially, to the pisiform and the hamulus of the hamate bone; laterally, to the tuberosity of the navicular, and to the medial part of the volar surface and the ridge of the greater multangular. From Wordnik.com. [IV. Myology. 1F. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Hand] Reference
Its lower end is attached to the mandible behind the last molar tooth, and immediately below and in front of this the lingual nerve can be felt; the upper end of the ligament can be traced to the pterygoid hamulus. From Wordnik.com. [XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 2. Surface Markings of Special Regions of the Head and Neck] Reference
It arises from the convex surface of the hamulus of the hamate bone, and the volar surface of the transverse carpal ligament, and is inserted into the ulnar side of the base of the first phalanx of the little finger. From Wordnik.com. [IV. Myology. 1F. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Hand] Reference
The medial pterygoid plate is narrower and longer than the lateral; it curves lateralward at its lower extremity into a hook-like process, the pterygoid hamulus, around which the tendon of the Tensor veli palatini glides. From Wordnik.com. [II. Osteology. 5a. 5. The Sphenoid Bone] Reference
The rest of the volar surface of the bony carpus is covered by tendons and the transverse carpal ligament, and is entirely concealed, with the exception of the hamulus of the hamate bone, which, however, is difficult to define. From Wordnik.com. [XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 11. Surface Anatomy of the Upper Extremity] Reference
It arises from the convexity of the hamulus of the hamate bone, and contiguous portion of the transverse carpal ligament; it is inserted into the whole length of the metacarpal bone of the little finger, along its ulnar margin. From Wordnik.com. [IV. Myology. 1F. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Hand] Reference
The medial pterygoid plate is long and narrow; on the lateral side of its base is the scaphoid fossa, for the origin of the Tensor veli palatini, and at its lower extremity the hamulus, around which the tendon of this muscle turns. From Wordnik.com. [II. Osteology. 5c. The Exterior of the Skull] Reference
Near the summit of the cochlea the lamina ends in a hook-shaped process, the hamulus laminæ spiralis; this assists in forming the boundary of a small opening, the helicotrema, through which the two scalæ communicate with each other. From Wordnik.com. [X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 4. The Internal Ear or Labyrinth] Reference
Descending vertically between the medial pterygoid plate and the Pterygoideus internus it ends in a tendon which winds around the pterygoid hamulus, being retained in this situation by some of the fibers of origin of the Pterygoideus internus. From Wordnik.com. [XI. Splanchnology. 2b. The Fauces] Reference
Each medial pterygoid plate (with the exception of its hamulus) is ossified in membrane, and its center probably appears about the ninth or tenth week; the hamulus becomes chondrified during the third month, and almost at once undergoes ossification (Fawcett). From Wordnik.com. [II. Osteology. 5a. 5. The Sphenoid Bone] Reference
The crest, with a part of the orbital surface immediately behind it, gives origin to the lacrimal part of the Orbicularis oculi and ends below in a small, hook-like projection, the lacrimal hamulus, which articulates with the lacrimal tubercle of the maxilla, and completes the upper orifice of the lacrimal canal; it sometimes exists as a separate piece, and is then called the lesser lacrimal bone. From Wordnik.com. [II. Osteology. 5b. 3. The Lacrimal Bone] Reference
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