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- noun muscle extending from the temporal fossa to the coronoid process of the mandible; acts to raise the mandible and close the jaws
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Examples
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A surgical technique known as temporalis tendon transfer, in conjunction with intense physical thera ...
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010
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The addition prayers of the Mass, which were appointed by the Missal of St. Pius V to be said at almost all Masses of the Ordo temporalis (varying from one liturgical season to another), were removed from the Masses of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
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In the paper A new species of taipan (Elapidae: Oxyuranus) from central Australia, researchers P. Doughty, B. Maryan, S.C. Donnellan and M.N. Hutchinson (in Zootaxa 1422: 45-58: 2007) described Oxyuranus temporalis.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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Addendum and details Oxyuranus temporalis - the new taipan species
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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Moving back to the morphology of the rorqual lower jaw, a tall, well-developed coronoid process – way larger than that of any other mysticete – projects from each jaw bone and forms the attachment site for a tendinous part of the temporalis muscle, termed the frontomandibular stay.
From cigar to elongated, bloated tadpole: rorquals part II Darren Naish 2006
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Moving back to the morphology of the rorqual lower jaw, a tall, well-developed coronoid process – way larger than that of any other mysticete – projects from each jaw bone and forms the attachment site for a tendinous part of the temporalis muscle, termed the frontomandibular stay.
Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The temporalis, located in the temporal fossa of the skull, opens and closes the jaw, as does the masseter.
Muscles Part 2 2008
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The frontomandibular stay provides a strong mechanical linkage between the lower jaw and skull and seems primarily to amplify the mechanical advantage of the temporalis muscles.
Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The frontomandibular stay provides a strong mechanical linkage between the lower jaw and skull and seems primarily to amplify the mechanical advantage of the temporalis muscles.
From cigar to elongated, bloated tadpole: rorquals part II Darren Naish 2006
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Those depressed areas on the frontals and zygomatic processes have apparently evolved to allow particularly large temporalis and masseter muscles, the muscles involved in closing the jaw.
From cigar to elongated, bloated tadpole: rorquals part II Darren Naish 2006
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