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Ontology Browser
Term:
Parent Terms Term With Siblings Child Terms
cheek +    
masticatory muscle +    
buccal fat pad 
buccal gland 
buccal mucosa +  
buccal salivary gland +  
cheek scale row +  
facial modiolus 
jugal bone +  
masseter muscle +  
Pharyngeal arch 1 muscle that participates in oral/pharyngeal behaviors, is innervated by masseteric nerve branches of the trigeminal nerve (CN V), and attaches to mandible and zygomatic arch.
protractor operculi 
pterygoid muscle +  
skin of cheek +  
temporalis muscle +  

Synonyms
Related Synonyms: masseter ;   musculus masseter
Xrefs: BTO:0001755 ;   EFO:0001424 ;   EHDAA2:0001067 ;   EHDAA:10561 ;   EMAPA:25135 ;   FMA:48996 ;   MA:0002343 ;   MESH:D008406 ;   MFMO:0000075 ;   NCI:C13074 ;   SCTID:181738000 ;   UMLS:C0024876 ;   VHOG:0000823 ;   Wikipedia:Masseter_muscle
see_also: https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/540
External Ontologys: present_in_taxon NCBITaxon:9606
Definition Sources: DOI:10.1093/icb/icr067, MFMO:0000075

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