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musculomandibular

musculomandibular adjective: relating to the muscles that control the mandible.

Adjective

musculomandibular (not comparable)

  1. Relating to the muscles that control the mandible
    • Rostrally, the submandibular artery bifurcates into the musculomandibular and genioglossus arteries [52 ].2015 October 15, “Vascular Patterns in Iguanas and Other Squamates: Blood Vessels and Sites of Thermal Exchange”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of musculomandibular

From musculo- + mandibular.

Words that rhyme with musculomandibular

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Questions about musculomandibular

What does musculomandibular mean?
Musculomandibular means relating to the muscles that control the mandible.
What part of speech is musculomandibular?
Musculomandibular is an adjective.

Words near musculomandibular in the dictionary

  1. musculofascial
  2. musculofasciocutaneous
  3. musculoglandular
  4. musculoligamental
  5. musculoligamentous
  6. musculomandibular
  7. musculomembranous
  8. musculomotor
  9. musculoperiosteal
  10. musculoperitoneal
  11. musculophrenic

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