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

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, vertebrate_core

comment

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)

hasAlternativeId

UBERON:0003899

has narrow synonym

adult head muscle organ

has related synonym

cranial muscle

head muscles

id

UBERON:0002376