The buccinator is a muscle that is attached to the mandible, skin, pterygomandibular raphe and maxilla, and is innervated by Cranial Nerve VII and participates in oropharyngeal behavior. [ http://www.feedexp.org/ FEED:rd MFMO:0000002 FEED:cw ]
Synonyms: buccinator musculus buccinator
Term information
- UMLS:C0224121 (ncithesaurus:Buccinator)
- FMA:46834
- EMAPA:37453 (MA:th)
- SCTID:244747005
- MA:0002272
- MFMO:0000002
- NCIT:C53150
- Wikipedia:Buccinator_muscle
uberon_slim, human_reference_atlas
Term relations
- facial muscle and attached to some mandible and attached to some skin of body and attached to some maxilla and attached to some pterygomandibular raphe and attached to some facial modiolus
- facial muscle
- has muscle insertion some facial modiolus
- has muscle origin some alveolar ridge of mandible
- innervated_by some facial nerve