The digastric muscle (also digastricus) (named digastric as it has two 'bellies') is a bilaterally paired suprahyoid muscle located under the jaw. Its...

suprahyoid muscles are four muscles located above the hyoid bone in the neck. They are the digastric, stylohyoid, geniohyoid, and mylohyoid muscles. They are...

Suprahyoid muscles Digastric muscle Stylohyoid muscle Geniohyoid muscle Mylohyoid muscle Inferior Thyrohyoid muscle Omohyoid muscle Sternohyoid muscle Sternothyroid...

contralateral digastric muscle, Anterior belly of ipsilateral digastric muscle Level IB: Body of mandible, Posterior belly of digastric muscle, Anterior belly...

biting and chewing. Other muscles are responsible for opening the jaw, namely the geniohyoid, mylohyoid, and digastric muscles (the lateral pterygoid may...

nerve. It provides motor innervation the mylohyoid muscle, and the anterior belly of the digastric muscle. It provides sensory innervation to part of the...

attachment of the sternocleidomastoid, the posterior belly of the digastric muscle, splenius capitis, and longissimus capitis. On the medial side of the...

is formed by the intermediate tendon of the digastric muscle, the posterior border of the mylohyoid muscle, and the hypoglossal nerve. The lingual artery...

belly of the digastric muscle are also supplied by the facial nerve, but are not considered muscles of facial expression. The facial muscles are derived...

superficial surface of the mylohyoid muscle between the anterior and posterior bellies of the digastric muscle. The space corresponds to the anatomic...

mylohyoid muscle is flat and triangular, and is situated immediately superior to the anterior belly of the digastric muscle. It is a pharyngeal muscle (derived...

perforated near its insertion by the intermediate tendon of the digastric muscle. The muscle arises from the posterior surface of the temporal styloid process;...

neck formed by the intermediate tendon of the digastric muscle, the posterior border of the mylohyoid muscle, and the hypoglossal nerve. The triangle was...

movements of some of the scalp muscles around the ear Branch to posterior belly of digastric muscle Branch of the stylohyoid muscle Five major facial branches...

anteriorly the hyoid bone posteriorly the anterior bellies of the digastric muscles laterally. The communications of the submental space are: the submandibular...

of which was to open the jaws (this function was taken over by the digastric muscle in mammals). The depressor mandibulae arose from the levator operculi...

to the ramus of mandible,: 601  and between the two bellies of the digastric muscle.: 601  The submandibular salivary glands develop later than the parotid...

situated in the submental triangle, between the anterior bellies of the digastric muscle and the hyoid bone. The submental lymph nodes are situated in the submental...

insulin-regulated glucose transporter found primarily in adipose tissues and striated muscle (skeletal and cardiac). The first evidence for this distinct glucose transport...

the posterior border of the hyoglossus, the posterior belly of the digastric muscle and the greater horn of the hyoid bone. R. Shane Tubbs; Mark Rasmussen;...

bite force of the masseter muscle and anchors the large digastric muscle to allow for rapid chewing. The digastric muscle is also modified to open and...

The digastric branch of facial nerve provides motor innervation to the posterior belly of the digastric muscle. It branches from the facial nerve (CN VII)...

malleus Muscles muscles of mastication (chewing) masseter medial and lateral pterygoid muscles temporalis mylohyoid muscle digastric muscle, anterior...

(August 2021). "Lower lip depressor reanimation using anterior belly of digastric muscle transfer improves psychological wellbeing in facial palsy patients"...

of this action it is assisted by the digastric, mylohyoid and geniohyoid muscles. The lateral pterygoid muscle may be involved in temporomandibular joint...

muscles for facial expression as well as more specific muscles such as the postauricular muscles, the posterior (back or end) belly of the digastric muscle...

parotid gland, being crossed by the hypoglossal nerve, the digastric muscle and the stylohyoid muscle, the occipital artery and the posterior auricular artery...

of the posterior belly of digastric muscle. As it courses downwards, the nerve pierces through the sternocleidomastoid muscle (approximately 1cm above...

is an iron- and oxygen-binding protein found in the cardiac and skeletal muscle tissue of vertebrates in general and in almost all mammals. Myoglobin is...

passes behind the deep belly of the digastric muscle. The hypoglossal nerve then travels deep to the hyoglossus muscle, which it supplies. It then continues...