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. [ FEED:cw FEED:rd http://www.feedexp.org/ MFMO:0000002 ]
Synonyms: buccinator musculus buccinator
Term information
- MFMO:0000002
- NCIT:C53150
- Wikipedia:Buccinator_muscle
- SCTID:244747005
- FMA:46834
- MA:0002272
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
- attached to some maxilla
- has muscle insertion some facial modiolus
- attached to some mandible
- has muscle origin some alveolar ridge of mandible
- attached to some facial modiolus
- attached to some pterygomandibular raphe
- attached to some skin of body