Key facts
- Origin
- Temporal lines on the parietal bone of the skull and the superior temporal surface of the sphenoid bone
- Insertion
- Coronoid process of the mandible and retromolar fossa
- Artery
- Deep temporal arteries
- Nerve
- Deep temporal nerves , branches of the anterior division of the mandibular nerve (V3)
- Actions
- Elevation and retraction of mandible
- Antagonist
- Platysma muscle
- Latin
- musculus temporalis
- Mesh
- D013703
- Ta98
- A04.1.04.005
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
15,684 papers- Temporal muscle thickness as an independent prognostic marker in glioblastoma patients-a systematic review and meta-analysis.Neurosurgical review · 2022
- Depression after temporal muscle flap: A systematic review of the literature.Journal of cranio-maxillo-facial surgery : official publication of the European Association for Cranio-Maxillo-Facial Surgery · 2019
- Temporal Muscle Thickness: A Far-Fetched Measurement in Sarcopenia.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2024
- Methods of Masseter and Temporal Muscle Thickness and Elasticity Measurements by Ultrasound Imaging: A Literature Review.Current medical imaging · 2021
- Temporal Muscle and Stroke-A Narrative Review on Current Meaning and Clinical Applications of Temporal Muscle Thickness, Area, and Volume.Nutrients · 2022
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Encyclopedic overview
In anatomy, the temporalis muscle, also known as the temporal muscle, is one of the muscles of mastication (chewing). It is a broad, fan-shaped convergent muscle on each side of the head that fills the temporal fossa, superior to the zygomatic arch so it covers much of the temporal bone. Temporal refers to the head's temples.
Structure
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “temporal muscle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.