Buccinator
a thin, flat muscle lining the cheek, the action of which contracts and compresses the cheek.
Historical Examples
The Compleat Surgeon, or the Whole Art of Surgery Explain’d in a Most Familiar Method Charles Gabriel Le Clerc
Artistic Anatomy of Animals douard Cuyer
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 Various
Artistic Anatomy of Animals douard Cuyer
The Young Voyageurs Mayne Reid
noun
a thin muscle that compresses the cheeks and holds them against the teeth during chewing, etc
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a combining form meaning “cheek,” “mouth,” used in the formation of compound words: buccolingual. Historical Examples The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the first Count Carlo Gozzi The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Lucius Apuleius Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and The William Griffith
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of or relating to the cheek and tongue.