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cranial muscle

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002376

Any skeletal muscle that is part of the head region. [ http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 ]

Synonyms: muscle organ of head, cephalic muscle, head muscle, cephalic musculature, head muscle organ, muscle of head, musculus caput, muscle organ of adult head

Term info

database cross reference
  • ZFA:0001652
  • SCTID:244718003
  • EHDAA2:0000322
  • FMA:9616
  • AAO:0000107
  • EMAPA:18172
  • BTO:0000021
  • MA:0000578
  • EFO:0003524
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, vertebrate_core

comment

defined generically so could in theory encompass FBbt:00003260 'skeletal muscle of head', or the muscle of a starfish Aristotle's lantern, but we restrict this to craniates. Skeletal muscles of the head originate from the non-segmented head mesoderm (Noden, 1983; Wachtler et al., 1984)

has related synonym

cranial muscle, head muscles

has alternative id

UBERON:0003899

has narrow synonym

adult head muscle organ

id

UBERON:0002376

prefLabel

Muscle of head