Cranial muscle

System Muscular
SNOMED CT 244718003

Cranial muscle

Definition

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)

Also known as cephalic muscle, cephalic musculature, head muscle, head muscle organ, muscle of head, muscle organ of adult head, muscle organ of head, musculus caput — per UBERON

The Cranial muscle is a part of the Muscular.

Also identified as