Pharyngeal arch 1 muscle that is innervated by the deep temporal branches of the trigeminal nerve and attaches to the wall of the braincase (including the cranial vault) and mandible. [ MFMO:0000085 ]
Term information
- NCIT:C33743
- MESH:D013703
- FMA:49006
- GAID:148
- EMAPA:25138
- EHDAA:10565
- Wikipedia:Temporal_muscle
- VHOG:0000929
- EHDAA2:0002001
- UMLS:C0039487 (ncithesaurus:Temporal_Muscle)
- MA:0002390
- SCTID:181739008
uberon_slim, pheno_slim
Pharyngeal arch 1 muscle that is innervated by the deep temporal branches of the trigeminal nerve and attaches to the wall of the braincase (including the cranial vault) and mandible.
Pharyngeal arch 1 muscle that is innervated by the deep temporal nerves and attaches to the wall of the braincase and mandible.[FEED]
the superior-most masticatory muscle whose action is closing the jaws; its posterior portion retracts the mandible
The division of the adductor mandibulae in the various lines of tetrapod evolution correlates with divergences in their methods of feeding. (...) As the jaws become stronger and their movements more complex in the line of evolution toward mammals, the adductor complex becomes divided into several distinct muscles (temporalis, masseter, pterygoideus, tensor tympani, tensor veli palati).[well established][VHOG]
Term relations
- masticatory muscle
- part of some head
- innervated_by some mandibular nerve
- has muscle insertion some mandible coronoid process
- capable of part of some mastication
- has muscle antagonist some platysma