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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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"Temporalis" Quotes from Famous Books



... hinder end of the dentary which differs in surface modelling from the rest of the surface of the jaw, has a definite limit anteriorly, and may represent a muscle insertion. The nature of these insertions suggests that the muscle was already divided into two parts, an outer masseter and an inner temporalis." But, unaccountably, Watson's illustration (1948:830, Fig. 4) of his reconstruction limits the insertion of the temporal to the anterior limit of the Meckelian opening and a part of the coronoid process above it. No muscle ...
— The Adductor Muscles of the Jaw In Some Primitive Reptiles • Richard C. Fox



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