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A muscle of the lower jaw that elevates the hyoid bone and assists in lowering the jaw.
DIGASTRIC - The digastric muscle (also digastricus) (named digastric as it has two 'bellies') is a small muscle located under the jaw. The term "digastric muscle...
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Muscle that helps in lowering lower jaw |
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Jul 6 2008 The Telegraph - General Knowledge |
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Each of a pair of muscles which run under the jaw and act to open it. |
Having two fleshy ends connected by a thinner tendinous portion. Used of certain muscles. |
A muscle of the lower jaw that elevates the hyoid bone and assists in lowering the jaw. |
Digastric muscles have two fleshy parts joined by a tendon ( a strong band of fibres). |
a muscle that opens the mouth by moving the jaw bone down |
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The Digastric muscle (also digastricus) (named digastric as it has two 'bellies') is a small muscle located under the jaw. The term "digastric muscle" refers to this specific muscle. However, other muscles that have two separate muscle bellies include the ligament of Treitz, omohyoid, occipitofrontalis. * It lies below the body of the mandible, and extends, in a curved form, from the mastoid notch to the symphysis menti. It belongs to the suprahyoid muscles group. * A broad aponeurotic layer is given off from the tendon of the digastricus on either side, to be attached to the body and greater cornu of the hyoid bone; this is termed the suprahyoid aponeurosis. |