Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun temporal_muscle

1 sense of temporal muscle

Sense 1
temporalis muscle, temporal muscle, temporalis, musculus temporalis -- (muscle extending from the temporal fossa to the coronoid process of the mandible; acts to raise the mandible and close the jaws)
       => skeletal muscle, striated muscle -- (a muscle that is connected at either or both ends to a bone and so move parts of the skeleton; a muscle that is characterized by transverse stripes)