The digastric muscle (also digastricus) (named digastric as it has two bellies) is a small muscle located under the jaw. The term `digastric muscle` refers to this specific muscle. However, other muscles that have two separate muscle bellies include the ligament of Treitz, omohyoid, occipitofrontalis. It lies below the body of the mandible, and .....
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(from the article `muscle`) ...mandibulae, which replaces the hypobranchial muscles as the major jaw-opening muscle. The restructuring of the posterior jaw in mammals leads to ...
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<anatomy> One of the suprahyoid group of muscles consisting of two bellies united by a central tendon which is connected to the body of the hyoid bone; origin, by posterior belly from the digastric groove medial to the mastoid process; insertion, by anterior belly into lower border of mandible near midline; action, elevates the hyoid when man...
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origin,ANTERIOR BELLY—digastric fossa on lower border of mandible near symphysis, POSTERIOR BELLY—mastoid notch of temporal bone; insertion, intermediate tendon on hyoid bone; innervation,ANTERIOR BELLY—mylohyoid nerve, POSTERIOR BELLY—digastric branch of facial nerve; action, raises hyoid bone, lowers jaw.
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This muscle, detached during staple implant insertion, consists of a posterior belly and anterior be
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The digastric muscle (digastricus; biventer mandibulae)is a small muscle located on the under side of the jaw. It consists of two bellies united by a single tendon which is connected to the hyoid bone. The muscle originates from the posterior belly at the mastoid groove for the digastric muscle and inserts by the anterior belly into the lower borde...
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