Temporal
Musculus temporalis
Closes the jaw.
- System
- Muscle
- Region
- Neck
- 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
- Temporal fossa of the parietal, frontal and temporal bones.
- Insertion
- Coronoid process of the mandible.
- Action
- Closes the 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 pig; the books it was checked against are listed below.
Terminology
- English
- Temporal
- Latin (NAV)
- Musculus temporalis
- Status
- A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria