digastric

Definition

A group of muscles (or in some classifications, muscle bellies) that are located under the jaw and attach to the base of the cranium and typically attaches to the hyoid apparatus via a common tendon.

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

Origin

mastoid notch

Insertion

Digastric fossa of Mandible

Innervation

facial nerve (VII), nerve to mylohyoid muscle

Sub-structures

• anterior belly of digastric muscle
• intermediate tendon of digastric muscle
• posterior belly of digastric muscle
• left digastric
• right digastric

Neighbouring structures

• geniohyoid
• mylohyoid
• stylohyoid

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Identifiers

TA2

2160

TA98

A04.2.03.002

FMA

46291

UBERON

0001562

Wikidata

Q645694