Any skeletal muscle that is part of the head region. [ http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 ]
Synonyms: muscle organ of head cephalic muscle head muscle cephalic musculature head muscle organ muscle of head musculus caput muscle organ of adult head
Term information
- FMA:9616
- MA:0000578
- EHDAA2:0000322
- BTO:0000021
- EMAPA:18172
- AAO:0000107
- SCTID:244718003
- ZFA:0001652
- EFO:0003524
uberon_slim, efo_slim, vertebrate_core, human_reference_atlas
defined generically so could in theory encompass FBbt:00003260 'skeletal muscle of head', or the muscle of a starfish Aristotle's lantern, but we restrict this to craniates. Skeletal muscles of the head originate from the non-segmented head mesoderm (Noden, 1983; Wachtler et al., 1984)
Term relations
- skeletal muscle organ, vertebrate
- craniocervical muscle
- mesoderm-derived structure
- part of some skeletal musculature of head
- develops from some head mesenchyme from mesoderm
- attached to some skull