Buccinator Definition

bŭksĭ-nātər
noun
The flat muscle of the cheek, which compresses it and retracts the corners of the mouth.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Buccinator

Noun

Singular:
buccinator
Plural:
buccinators

Origin of Buccinator

  • Latin buccinātor trumpeter (from its being the chief muscle used in blowing) from buccinātus past participle of buccināre to blow a horn from būcina, buccina horn, trumpet gwou- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin, a trumpeter, from bucinare to sound the trumpet.

    From Wiktionary

Buccinator Sentence Examples

  • It was in Herbert Spencer, the triumphant " buccinator novi temporis," that the advocates of evolutionary ethics found.

  • Its duct leaves the inferior anterior angle, at first descends a little, and runs forward under cover of the rounded inferior border of the lower jaw, then curves up along the anterior margin of the masseter muscle, becoming superficial, pierces the buccinator, and enters the mouth by a simple aperture opposite the middle of the crown of the third premolar tooth.

  • Back To Top Trumpeter Swan (Cygnus cygnus buccinator or Olor buccinator) Western North America.

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