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anterior digastric muscle
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The anterior digastric is a pharyngeal arch I muscle that participates in oral/pharygeal behaviors and is innervated by the nerve to mylohyoid (a branch of the third division of the trigeminal nerve), is attached to the mandible and to the hyoid apparatus, and it is superficial to mylohyoid muscle. [ http://www.feedexp.org/ ]
Term info
Label
anterior digastric muscle
Synonyms
- anterior belly of digastric
- anterior belly of digastric muscle
- anterior digastric
- anterior digastric muscle
- digastric, anterior
- digastricus anterior
- digastricus anterior belly
- digastricus, venter rostralis
- venter anterior (musculus digastricus)
- venter posterior musculus digastrici anterior
Subsets
feed_aligned
external definition
The anterior digastric is a pharyngeal arch I muscle that participates in oral/pharygeal behaviors and is innervated by the nerve to mylohyoid and superficial to mylohyoid muscle, and lacks the midline raphe.[FEED]
has obo namespace
uberon
id
UBERON:0010943
see also
https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/538
taxon notes
absent in orangutans
Term relations
Equivalent to:
- trigeminal nerve muscle and superficial_to some mylohyoid muscle and attaches_to some mandible and attaches_to some hyoid bone
Subclass of:
- trigeminal nerve muscle
- muscle of digastric group
- has_muscle_origin some mandible
- innervated_by some mylohyoid nerve
- superficial_to some mylohyoid muscle
- attaches_to some mandible
- attaches_to some hyoid bone