temporalis muscle, also known as the temporal muscle, is one of the muscles of mastication (chewing). It is a broad, fan-shaped convergent muscle on each...

an supplemental strip of muscle) or entirely from the styloid process of the temporal bone. It may be connected by a muscle slip to the middle or inferior...

of the superficial temporal artery (anterior temporal) runs tortuously upward and forward to the forehead, supplying the muscles, skin, and pericranium...

has an insertion at the mastoid process of the temporal bone of the skull. The sternocleidomastoid muscle originates from two locations: the manubrium of...

The stylohyoid muscle is one of the suprahyoid muscles. Its originates from the styloid process of the temporal bone; it inserts onto hyoid bone. It is...

The stylopharyngeus muscle is a muscle in the head. It originates from the temporal styloid process. Some of its fibres insert onto the thyroid cartilage...

four of the cranial bones fuse. Each temple is covered by a temporal muscle. The temporal bones house the structures of the ears. The lower seven cranial...

echolocation. Muscles of the head and neck. Dissection, showing salivary glands of right side (Masseter visible at center) Left temporal bone, outer surface...

The fossa is filled by the temporalis muscle. Medial/floor: frontal bone, parietal bone, (squamous part of) temporal bone, and sphenoid bone. The floor of...

The deep temporal arteries are two arteries of the head. They ascend between the temporalis muscle and the pericranium. They anastomose with the middle...

temporal bone is the posterior (back) part of the temporal bone, one of the bones of the skull. Its rough surface gives attachment to various muscles...

bone and from the mastoid process of the temporal and ends in the epicranial aponeurosis. The occipitalis muscle is innervated by the posterior auricular...

its fibers merging with those of the frontalis muscle. The procerus muscle is supplied by the temporal branch of the facial nerve (VII). It may also be...

gives attachments to several muscles, and ligaments. The styloid process is a slender and pointed bony process of the temporal bone projecting anteroinferiorly...

The posterior auricular muscle is a muscle behind the auricle of the outer ear. It arises from the mastoid part of the temporal bone, and inserts into...

The styloglossus muscle is a bilaterally paired muscle of the tongue. It originates at the styloid process of the temporal bone. It inserts onto the side...

The temporal fascia (or deep temporal fascia: 357 ) is a fascia of the head that covers the temporalis muscle and structures situated superior to the...

parietal, temporal, and sphenoid. It is located on the side of the head behind the eye between the forehead and the ear. The temporal muscle covers this...

nerve (V). The anterior auricular muscle is the smallest of the three auricular muscles. The superficial temporal artery, a branch of the external carotid...

pterygoid muscle. They ascend to the temporal fossa[citation needed] and enter the deep surface of the temporalis muscle. The deep temporal nerves provide...

Skeletal muscle (commonly referred to as muscle) is one of the three types of vertebrate muscle tissue, the others being cardiac muscle and smooth muscle. They...

the muscle are directed upward and laterally and are inserted, under cover of the sternocleidomastoideus, into the mastoid process of the temporal bone...

largest of the three auriculares muscles. It is thin and fan-shaped. The superior auricular muscle is supplied by the temporal branch of the facial nerve (VII)...

Muscle contraction is the activation of tension-generating sites within muscle cells. In physiology, muscle contraction does not necessarily mean muscle...

the temporal branches of facial nerve (CN VII). The muscle receives arterial supply from adjacent arteries - mostly from the superficial temporal artery...

aponeurosis; below them it forms part of the temporal fossa, and affords attachment to the temporal muscle. At the back part and close to the upper or...

muscle is a quadrangular roughened area upon the medial extremity of the inferior aspect of the petrous part of the temporal bone; here, the muscle arises...

a distinct muscle by others) The medial pterygoid The lateral pterygoid In humans, the mandible, or lower jaw, is connected to the temporal bone of the...

insulin-regulated glucose transporter found primarily in adipose tissues and striated muscle (skeletal and cardiac). GLUT4 is distinctive because it is predominantly...

superficial temporal space by the temporalis muscle laterally. The deep temporal space and the superficial temporal space together make up the temporal spaces...