Buccinator muscle
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Buccinator muscle | ||
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Buccinator outlined in red. | ||
Latin | musculus buccinator | |
Gray's | subject #108 384 | |
Origin: | from the alveolar processes of the maxillary bone and mandible, pterygomandibular raphe | |
Insertion: | in the fibres of the orbicularis oris | |
Artery: | buccal artery | |
Nerve: | buccal branch of the facial nerve (VII cranial nerve) | |
Action: | The buccinator compresses the cheeks against the teeth and is used in acts such as blowing. It is an assistant muscle of mastication (chewing). | |
Dorlands/Elsevier | m_22/12548520 |
The buccinator is a thin quadrilateral muscle, occupying the interval between the maxilla and the mandible at the side of the face.
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[edit] Action
Its action is to pull back the angle of the mouth and to flatten the cheek area.
[edit] Origin and insertion
It arises from the outer surfaces of the alveolar processes of the maxilla and mandible, corresponding to the three molar teeth; and behind, from the anterior border of the pterygomandibular raphé which separates it from the Constrictor pharyngis superior.
The fibers converge toward the angle of the mouth, where the central fibers intersect each other, those from below being continuous with the upper segment of the Orbicularis oris, and those from above with the lower segment; the upper and lower fibers are continued forward into the corresponding lip without decussation.
[edit] Innervation
Innervation is from the facial nerve (cranial nerve VII).
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[edit] External links
- GPnotebook -845545395
- LUC buc
- Dictionary at eMedicine Buccinator+muscle
- Roche Lexicon - illustrated navigator, at Elsevier 05287.011-1
- Roche Lexicon - illustrated navigator, at Elsevier 25420.000-1
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scalp/eyelid: occipitofrontalis (occipitalis, frontalis) - orbicularis oculi - corrugator supercilii - depressor supercilii
extraocular: levator palpebrae superioris - superior tarsal - rectus (superior, inferior, medial, lateral) - oblique (superior, inferior) - intraocular: ciliary - iris dilator - iris sphincter
ear: auriculares - temporoparietalis - stapedius - tensor tympani
nose: procerus - nasalis (dilatator naris) - depressor septi nasi - levator labii superioris alaeque nasi
mouth: levator anguli oris/depressor anguli oris - levator labii superioris/depressor labii inferioris - zygomaticus (major, minor) - mentalis - buccinator - orbicularis oris - risorius
mastication: masseter - temporalis - pterygoid (lateral, medial)
tongue: extrinsic (genioglossus - hyoglossus - chondroglossus - styloglossus) intrinsic (superior longitudinal - inferior longitudinal - transversus - verticalis)
soft palate: levator veli palatini - tensor veli palatini - musculus uvulae - palatoglossus - palatopharyngeus
pharynx: pharyngeal constrictor (inferior, middle, superior) - stylopharyngeus - salpingopharyngeus
larynx: cricothyroid - posterior cricoarytenoid - lateral cricoarytenoid - arytenoid - thyroarytenoid