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The jaw adductor muscles, masseter and temporalis, are small and architecturally simple.
The first masticatory jaw motions involve irregular contractions of both the masseter and temporalis muscles.
There are thirty-two segments devoted to a particular muscle, such as temporalis, masseter, sternocleidomastoid, biceps brachii and so on.
A case has been reported of displacement of the parotid gland on one side, with the entire gland being located on the masseter muscle.
Jaw closing is the result of the action of the jaw elevators, i.e., masseter, temporalis and medial pterygoid muscles.
The skull has an broad, tilted zygomatic plate that serves as the attachment point for the lateral branch of the masseter muscle.
Enormous temporal fossae for very strong jaw muscles, formed by just one of the reptilian jaw muscles, which has now become the mammalian masseter.
Other episodes have been attributed to anatomic abnormalities, including a patulous Stensen's duct masseter muscle hypertrophy and buccinator muscle weakness.
In mammals the temporalis is divided into a deep temporalis proper and a more superficial masseter muscle.
The main muscle used in chewing by rodents is the masseter, and the rodents can be divided into several groups based on exactly how they use these muscles.
The masseter passes from the angular process of the mandible to the zygomatic arch.
Our objective was to study the changes in the masseter muscles after unilateral exodontia.
The presence of hypertrophic masseter muscles is another warning sign of the impact of bruxism.
There is progressive loss of oral manipulation of food, associated with increasing weakness and atrophy of the tongue, masseter muscles and soft palate.
The Sciuromorpha, such as the eastern grey squirrel, have a large deep masseter, making them efficient at biting with the incisors.
Muscle spindle afferent input to motoneurons in human masseter.
Masseter hypertrophy may become apparent in persistent grinders.
Examples from Classical Literature
But in Captorhinus the masseter arose from the lower part of the cheek close to the outer surface of the coronoid process.
The muscles of this group which specially interest us are the masseter and the temporal.
Consequently, the masseter was able to extend from an anterodorsal origin to a posterior and ventral insertion.
The masseteric fossa receives the insertion of the rostral or superficial division of the masseter muscle.
There is often a very much enlarged infra-orbital foramen through which passes a part of the masseter muscle.
This ridge presumably marks the upper limits of the origin of the masseter from the squamosal.
Finally there is evidence for an adductor between the temporal and masseter masses.
Presumably the muscle was sheetlike and attached to the skull roof, medial to the attachment of the masseter.
Like the masseter, the temporal is an elevator of the lower jaw.
The lateral division consisted of temporal and masseter masses.
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