orbicularis oris muscle
Musculus orbicularis oris
In 1 atlas
Definition
The orbicularis oris is a superficial facial muscle with fibers that encircle the opening of the oral cavity that attaches to the maxilla, mandible, skin and modiolus, and that participates in oral/pharyngeal behaviors, and is innervated by the facial nerve (CN VII).
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
- facial nerve (VII)
Sub-structures
Neighbouring structures
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Identifiers
- TA2
- 2073
- TA98
- A04.1.03.023
- FMA
- 46841
- UBERON
- 0010933
- Wikidata
- Q302950
