Transverse muscle of auricle

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Transverse muscle of auricle
The muscles of the auricula.
Latin	musculus transversus auriculae
Gray's	subject #229 1035
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Dorlands /Elsevier	m_22/12551217

The transverse muscle of auricle is placed on the cranial surface of the pinna.

It consists of scattered fibers, partly tendinous and partly muscular, extending from the eminentia conchae to the prominence corresponding with the scapha.

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