masseter

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If the brain is affected, which is far less common, the clinical signs might include blindness, inability to chew or swallow, atrophy of muscles of the head (such as the masseter in the cheek that closes the jaw during chewing), head tilt, or seizures.

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  1. noun A thick muscle in the cheek that closes the jaws during chewing.

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  • If the brain is affected, which is far less common, the clinical signs might include blindness, inability to chew or swallow, atrophy of muscles of the head (such as the masseter in the cheek that closes the jaw during chewing), head tilt, or seizures. —  TheHorse.com News
  • The masseter, L, Plate 3, pterygoid, buccinator, 15, Plate 4, and the facial fibres of the platysma muscles, A O, Plate 3, still, however, preserve their power, as these structures are innervated from a different source. —  Surgical Anatomy
  • One of the most powerful of them, the 'masseter', rises from the superior maxillary bone, and spreads over its whole extent: therefore, that bone is developed, while the nasal bone is compressed into a very small space. —  The Dog
  • D, may be compressed against the horizontal ramus of the lower jaw-bone at the anterior border of the masseter muscle. —  Surgical Anatomy
  • # -- _Temporary fixation_ is due to spasmodic contraction of the muscles of mastication, particularly the masseter. —  Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
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  1. New Latin massētēr, from Greek masētēr, massētēr, from masāsthai, to chew.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek μασητήρ (not *μασσ, σ1ητήρ, a chew (μῦςμασητήρ, a muscle of the lower jaw), from μασᾶσ, σ1θαι, chew, prob. akin to μάσσ, σ1ειν, knead: see mass.
 

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