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masseter Anat.|mæˈsiːtə(r)|
[a. mod.L. massēter (whence F. masséter), a. Gr. µασητήρ (formerly miswritten µασσ-), agent-n. from µασᾶσθαι to chew. (The Gr. n. occurs in apposition with µῦς muscle.)]
(Usually masseter muscle.) One of the principal masticatory muscles, passing from the malar bone and zygomatic arch to the ramus of the lower jaw.
1666J. Smith Old Age (1676) 77 It [the upper jaw] hath..one wonderful pair of Muscles, called, the Masseters. 1694Phil. Trans. XVIII. 24 A Child..who had just then received a large Wound upon the Masseter Muscle. 1849St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 685 The masseters were rigid. 1881Davey in Jrnl. Psychol. Med. VII. i, A tetanic rigidity of the temporal and masseter muscles. |