| 单词 | masticatory muscle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmasticatory muscle masticatory muscle n. any of the group of muscles which produce the movements of the lower jaw involved in chewing, comprising the masseters, temporals, and pterygoids. ΚΠ 1689 W. Salmon tr. Y. van Diemerbroeck Anat. Human Bodies i. 477/2 The Muscles of the lower Jaw..causing a strong Motion in the chewing of Food, are called Masticatory, Molary or Grinders, and Mansory or Eaters; of which there are reckoned five Pair. 1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 543/2 The masticatory muscles..present great uniformity of arrangement throughout all the Vertebral orders. 1948 A. Brodal Neurol. Anat. vii. 247 The mesencephalic nucleus is concerned in proprioception from the masticatory muscles. 1990 Jrnl. Zool. 220 326 It was shown that in mammalian masticatory muscles maximum tension is developed with the mouth open. < as lemmas |
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