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Temporalis

noun
1.
Muscle extending from the temporal fossa to the coronoid process of the mandible; acts to raise the mandible and close the jaws.  Synonyms: musculus temporalis, temporal muscle, temporalis muscle.



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... space. The anterior rhinal fissure, which is present in the early human foetus, vanishes (almost, if not altogether) in the adult. Part of the posterior rhinal fissure is always present in the 'incisura temporalis,' and sometimes, especially in some of the non-European races, the whole of the posterior rhinal fissure is retained in that typical form which we find in the anthropoid apes." (G. Elliot Smith, in Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Physiological Series of Comparative ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis



Words linked to "Temporalis" :   striated muscle, skeletal muscle



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