Temporal muscle
Musculus temporalis
Elevator of the lower jaw.
- System
- Muscle
- Region
- Head
- Sides
- Paired: left and right
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
- from the temporal fossa …
- Insertion
- on both surfaces and both borders of the coronoid process of the mandible. It may be divided into two layers, deep and superficial. The superficial layer .
- Action
- Elevator of the lower jaw.
- Nerve
- Deep temporal branches of the mandibular nerve, from the trigeminal.
Written for Vetomica in its own words from the standard reference anatomy of the cat; the books it was checked against are listed below.
Terminology
- English
- Temporal muscle
- Latin (NAV)
- Musculus temporalis
- Status
- A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria