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masseteric, a. and n.|mæsɪˈtɛrɪk|
[f. masseter + -ic.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the masseter muscle.
1831R. Knox Cloquet's Anat. 463 The..masseteric, buccal and pterygoid twigs. 1891Flower & Lydekker Introd. Mammals 171 The masseteric fossa of the mandible.
B. n. A masseteric nerve, muscle, artery, etc.
1840E. Wilson Anat. Vade M. 386 The masseteric, which crosses the sigmoid notch with the masseteric artery to the masseter muscle. 1875Sir W. Turner in Encycl. Brit. I. 836/1 The lower jaw..is elevated by the temporal muscles..and by the masseterics. |