zygomaticus major muscle
Musculus zygomaticus major
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Definition
Facial muscle attached to the modiolus, corner (angle) of the mouth, and zygomatic bone. See Diogo 2008; Diogo et al., 2009; Burrows et al.., 2011., also DuBrul, 1980.
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
- zygomatic branches of the facial nerve, buccal branch of the facial nerve, facial nerve (VII)
- Arterial supply
- facial artery
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Identifiers
- TA2
- 2079
- TA98
- A04.1.03.029
- FMA
- 46810
- UBERON
- 0008593
- Wikidata
- Q612325
