Buccinator muscle
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| Buccinator muscle | ||
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| Buccinator outlined in red. | ||
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| Scheme showing arrangement of fibers of Orbicularis oris. (Buccinator labeled at left.) | ||
| Latin | musculus buccinator | |
| Gray's | subject #108 384 | |
| Origin: | from the alveolar processes of the maxillary bone and mandible | |
| Insertion: | in the fibres of the orbicularis oris | |
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| 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. Its action is to pull back the angle of the mouth and to flatten the cheek area.
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.
Innervation is from the facial nerve (cranial nerve VII).
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