Search Result for "temporalis_muscle":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. muscle extending from the temporal fossa to the coronoid process of the mandible; acts to raise the mandible and close the jaws;
[syn: temporalis muscle, temporal muscle, temporalis, musculus temporalis]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

temporalis muscle n 1: muscle extending from the temporal fossa to the coronoid process of the mandible; acts to raise the mandible and close the jaws [syn: temporalis muscle, temporal muscle, temporalis, musculus temporalis]