What is the Latin name of the masseter?

In the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, the masseter is called Musculus masseter.

Where does the masseter originate and insert?

Origin: The facial crest and the zygomatic arch. Insertion: The lateral surface and ventral border of the ramus of the mandible.

What nerve supplies the masseter?

The masseteric nerve, from the mandibular nerve.

Masseter

Musculus masseter

Muscle
Head
Left
Horse

Closes the jaw and moves it to its own side in chewing.

About the masseter of the horse

Masseter is a muscle of the head (head), on the left side. Its name in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria is Musculus masseter. You can turn it above, see it in place in the head of the horse, and open it inside the whole animal in Vetomica.

Where it runs from and to

A muscle is told apart from its neighbours by what it takes hold of at each end, which is also what decides what it does when it shortens.

Origin: The facial crest and the zygomatic arch.
Insertion: The lateral surface and ventral border of the ramus of the mandible.
Action: Closes the jaw and moves it to its own side in chewing.
Nerve: The masseteric nerve, from the mandibular nerve.

Written for Vetomica in its own words from the standard reference anatomy of the horse; the books it was checked against are listed below.

Terminology

English: Masseter
Latin (NAV): Musculus masseter
Status: A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria

The masseter in other animals

The same structure in the other animals in the Library, to compare.

Questions about the masseter

What is the Latin name of the masseter?: In the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, the masseter is called Musculus masseter.
Where is the masseter of the horse?: Masseter is a muscle of the head (head), on the left side.
Where does the masseter originate and insert?: Origin: The facial crest and the zygomatic arch. Insertion: The lateral surface and ventral border of the ramus of the mandible.
What nerve supplies the masseter?: The masseteric nerve, from the mandibular nerve.
What does the masseter do?: Closes the jaw and moves it to its own side in chewing.

See the masseter inside the whole horse.

Vetomica opens on this structure with every layer of the horse around it: peel back the skin and the muscles, cut a section through it, X-ray it, and practise naming it until you stop getting it wrong.

Open it in Vetomica Practise naming it

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