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cranial muscle
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002376
Any skeletal muscle that is part of the head region. [ http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 ]
Term info
Label
cranial muscle
Synonyms
- cephalic muscle
- cephalic musculature
- head muscle
- head muscle organ
- muscle of head
- muscle organ of adult head
- muscle organ of head
- musculus caput
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 alternative id
UBERON:0003899
has narrow synonym
adult head muscle organ
has obo namespace
uberon
has related synonym
cranial muscle, head muscles
id
UBERON:0002376
Term relations
Subclass of:
- anatomical structure
- craniocervical muscle
- mesoderm-derived structure
- part of some skeletal musculature of head
- attaches_to some skull
- develops from some head mesenchyme from mesoderm
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