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Descriptor English: Temporal Muscle
Descriptor Spanish: Músculo Temporal
Descriptor músculo temporal
Scope note: Músculo de la masticación cuya acción es cerrar las mandíbulas. Su porción posterior retrae la mandíbula.
Descriptor Portuguese: Músculo Temporal
Descriptor French: Muscle temporal
Entry term(s): Muscle, Temporal
Muscles, Temporal
Temporal Muscles
Tree number(s): A02.633.567.600.850
A14.530.940
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013703
Scope note: A masticatory muscle whose action is closing the jaws; its posterior portion retracts the mandible.
Annotation: /growth: coord with MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; /embryol: coord with MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT if pertinent
Allowable Qualifiers: AB abnormalities
AH anatomy & histology
BS blood supply
CH chemistry
CY cytology
DE drug effects
DG diagnostic imaging
EM embryology
EN enzymology
GD growth & development
IM immunology
IN injuries
IR innervation
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
PA pathology
PH physiology
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
RE radiation effects
SU surgery
TR transplantation
UL ultrastructure
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Facial Muscles (1966-1979)
Masticatory Muscles (1966-1979)
Muscles (1966-1979)
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under MASTICATORY MUSCLES 1980-90
History Note: 91(80); was see under MASTICATORY MUSCLES 1980-90
DeCS ID: 14081
Unique ID: D013703
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1979/03/12
Revision Date: 2008/07/08
Temporal Muscle - Preferred
Concept UI M0021151
Scope note A masticatory muscle whose action is closing the jaws; its posterior portion retracts the mandible.
Preferred term Temporal Muscle
Entry term(s) Muscle, Temporal
Muscles, Temporal
Temporal Muscles



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