Sphenomandibularis
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The Sphenomandibularis is a muscle
attaching to the sphenoid
bone and the mandible. It is a muscle of mastication.
Unlike most of the muscles of the human body, which had been categorized several centuries ago, Sphenomandibularis was discovered in the mid-1990s at the University of Maryland at Baltimore. The findings were published in 1996.
Sphenomandibularis is considered by many sources to be a portion of the temporalis, rather than a distinct muscle.
Muscle
Muscle is a contractile tissue of animals and is derived from the mesodermal layer of embryonic germ cells. Muscle cells contain contractile filaments that move past each other and change the size of the cell. They are classified as skeletal, cardiac, or smooth muscles. Their function is to...
attaching to the sphenoid
Sphenoid bone
The sphenoid bone is an unpaired bone situated at the base of the skull in front of the temporal bone and basilar part of the occipital bone.The sphenoid bone is one of the seven bones that articulate to form the orbit...
bone and the mandible. It is a muscle of mastication.
Unlike most of the muscles of the human body, which had been categorized several centuries ago, Sphenomandibularis was discovered in the mid-1990s at the University of Maryland at Baltimore. The findings were published in 1996.
Sphenomandibularis is considered by many sources to be a portion of the temporalis, rather than a distinct muscle.
External links
- Identification and Visualization of the Sphenomandibularis Muscle in the Visible Human Male and Female Data Sets; Visible Human Project|; National Library of Medicine
- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/vhp_conf/hack1/figure1.htm Sphenomandibularis Muscle figure