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a rare layman's term for the orbicularis oris sphincter muscle complex that surrounds the human mouth.
Mentioned in here, an old and archived BBC Science page.
Also found (with a hyphen) in the Century's definition of oscularis, an obsolete term for the same.
September 21, 2020