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buccinator Anat.|ˈbʌksɪneɪtə(r)|
[a. L. buccinātor, agent-noun f. buccināre to blow the crooked trumpet. So called because it is the chief muscle employed in the act of blowing.]
Name for a flat thin muscle which forms the wall of the cheek. Also attrib.
1671tr. Riolanus' Sure Guide Physick 220 Vulgarly termed Buccinator, or the Trumpeter, it were more rightly called Bucco the Cheek driver. 1746R. James Introd. Mouffet's Health's Improv. 2 The Food is then applied to the double Teeth..by the various actions of the Buccinators. 1831R. Knox Cloquet's Anat. 269 The Buccinator..is much larger in glass-blowers and persons who play on wind instruments than in other individuals. 1842Blackw. Mag. LI. 46 Two or three [frogs] are blowing out their buccinators. |