anterior belly of digastric muscle
Venter anterior musculi digastrici
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Definition
The anterior digastric is a pharyngeal arch I muscle that participates in oral/pharygeal behaviors and is innervated by the nerve to mylohyoid (a branch of the third division of the trigeminal nerve), is attached to the mandible and to the hyoid apparatus, and it is superficial to mylohyoid muscle.
Source: UBERON · Licence: CC-BY-3.0
Definition from the Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall CJ et al., Genome Biology 2012, 13:R5), https://obophenotype.github.io/uberon/, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Relations
- Innervation
- nerve to mylohyoid muscle
Sub-structures
Neighbouring structures
Practice questions
Identifiers
- TA2
- 2161
- TA98
- A04.2.03.003
- FMA
- 46302
- UBERON
- 0010943
- Wikidata
- Q66536458
