Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The thin, flat muscle forming the wall of the cheek.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In anatomy, the trumpeter's muscle; a thin flat muscle forming the wall of the cheek, assisting in mastication, and also in blowing wind-instruments (whence its name).
- n. The specific name of the trumpeter swan of North America, Cygnus buccinator.
Wiktionary
- n. a thin broad muscle forming the wall of the cheek.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Anat.) A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.
Etymologies
- Latin, a trumpeter, from bucinare to sound the trumpet. (Wiktionary)
- Latin buccinātor, trumpeter (from its being the chief muscle used in blowing), from buccinātus, past participle of buccināre, to blow a horn, from būcina, buccina, horn, trumpet; see gwou- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Dave pulls out a drawer labeled Cygnus buccinator and there they are, just as I remembered them, their legs folded up next to their heads, a lamentation of swans.”
“Of special interest are the whooping crane Grus americana (EN), the nationally threatened bald eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus, peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus, and trumpeter swan Cygnus buccinator.”
“A small population of trumpeter swan Olor buccinator, a rare species in Canada, nests on Yohin lake.”
“Other species include marbled murrelet Brachyramphus marmoratus, trumpeter swan Cygnus buccinator, and golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos.”
“Without the help of the epicranius, zygomaticus, triangurlis, quadratus labii, buccinator and platysma, Little Red Riding Hood would have been little more than a silhouette through closed eyelids.”
“These include trumpeter swan Cygnus buccinator and peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus, both considered vulnerable in Canada.”
“Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, he explained, owed the signature ballooning of his cheeks to the buccinator muscles.”
“The analogy to Gillespie was apt, he continued, because buccinator is the name of the long trumpets used to herald royalty in the Roman Empire.”
“Bacon wished to be the buccinator or herald of a new world, and his true greatness consists precisely in this function of his as herald.”
“From above comes the elevator of the angle of the mouth; from the region of the cheek-bone slant downwards the two _zygomatics_, which carry the angle outwards and upwards; from behind comes the _buccinator_, or trumpeter's muscle, which simply widens the mouth by drawing the corners straight outward; from below, the depressor of the angle; not to add a seventh, sometimes well marked, -- the "laughing muscle" of Santorini.”
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Words with bite
Words that relate to the teeth, mouth or dentistry in general.
cingulum, furcation, rheostat, velum, mesiobuccal, distobuccal, mesiolingual, distolingual, incisal, occlusal, morsal, labial and 40 more...
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It Has a Name??
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aglet, armsaye, scroop, rowel, ferrule, rasceta, chanking, philtrum, frenulum, keeper, agelast, punt and 285 more...
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Musculature
These are muscles whose names I find amusing or strange.
tensor fasciae latae, risorius, masseter, buccinator, styloglossus, sternocleidomastoid, latissimus dorsi, gastrocnemius, salpingopharyngeus, omohyoid, multifidus, diaphragm and 14 more...
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reesetee A thin, flat muscle lining the cheek, the action of which contracts and compresses the cheek.
I like the etymology: 1665–75; buccin�?tor, būcin�?tor, trumpeter, equiv. to būcin�?(re), to signal on a trumpet (v. deriv. of būcina, curved trumpet or horn) + -tor. :-) Aug 5, 2009