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Definition of Buccinator muscle
1. Noun. A muscle that flattens the cheek and retracts the angle of the mouth.
Generic synonyms: Facial Muscle
Group relationships: Cheek
Lexicographical Neighbors of Buccinator Muscle
Literary usage of Buccinator muscle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1903)
"—Arrangement ot the Fibres ot the buccinator muscle at the Angles of the ...
The buccinator muscle must be cleaned with care, because branches from the ..."
2. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology (1867)
"Others, again, having traced branches proceeding from it, partly to the buccinator
muscle itself, and partly to the glands and mucous membrane of the cheek, ..."
3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The buccal branch of the inferior maxillary nerve pierces the buccinator muscle,
and by some anatomists is regarded as partly supplying this muscle. ..."
4. A Treatise on the principles and practice of medicine: Designed for the Use by Austin Flint (1868)
"The limitation of the paralysis of the face in cases of hemiplegia to the buccinator
muscle will not account for the appearances in a certain proportion of ..."
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