Buccinator (L.buccinator, trumpeter)

This muscle may be composed of two laminae and may be continuous with the superior constrictor.

Syn.: Backenmuskel, Trompetermuskel

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References

Henle, J. (1871) Handbuch der Muskellehre des Menschen, in Handbuch der systematischen Anatomie des Menschen. Verlag von Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, Braunschweig.

Macalister, A. (1875) Additional observations on muscular anomalies in human anatomy (third series), with a catalogue of the principal variations hitherto published. Trans. Roy. Irish Acad. Sci. 25:1-134.

Williams, P.L., Warwick, R., Dyson, M., and L.H. Bannister, Eds. (1989) Gray's Anatomy, 37th ed., Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh.