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- Practice the English pronunciation of temporalis with real speech in context.
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- What Makes Us Human?
massive chewing muscles, like the temporalis and masseter
- Definition summary
- (anatomy) A fan-shaped muscle which arises from the surface of the temporal fossa and converges to an aponeurosis which contracts into a thick flat tendon inserted into the coronoid process of the mandible; it serves to raise the lower jaw and is involved in closing the mouth and chewing.
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How to pronounce temporalis
What Makes Us Human?
massive chewing muscles, like the temporalis and masseter
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A Deep Dive Into “temporalis”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (anatomy) A fan-shaped muscle which arises from the surface of the temporal fossa and converges to an aponeurosis which contracts into a thick flat tendon inserted into the coronoid process of the mandible; it serves to raise the lower jaw and is involved in closing the mouth and chewing.
- [Adjective]
- (in general, chiefly post-Augustan) of or belonging to time, lasting but for a time, temporary, temporal
- (Late Latin) (anatomy, relational) of or pertaining to the temples of the head
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