noun
muscle extending from the temporal fossa to the coronoid process of the mandible; acts to raise the mandible and close the jaws
• Syn: ↑temporalis muscle, ↑temporalis, ↑musculus temporalis
• Hypernyms: ↑skeletal muscle, ↑striated muscle
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noun : a large muscle in the temporal fossa serving to raise the lower jaw and in man being composed of fibers that arise from the surface of the temporal fossa and converge to an aponeurosis which contracts into a thick flat tendon inserted into the coronoid process of the mandible
Useful english dictionary. 2012.