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Definition of Digastric
1. a. Having two bellies; biventral; -- applied to muscles which are fleshy at each end and have a tendon in the middle, and esp. to the muscle which pulls down the lower jaw.
Definition of Digastric
1. Adjective. Having two bellies; biventral ¹
2. Adjective. Having two fleshy ends connected by a tendon ¹
3. Noun. The digastric muscle ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Digastric
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Digastric
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Digastric
Literary usage of Digastric
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"Pyramid and digastric Lobules (Figs. 432, 433 ; also preceding ones).—The pyramid
is a large laminated, somewhat conical projection. ..."
2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"digastric. Mylo-hyoid. Stylo-hyoid. Genio-hyoid. Dissection.—To dissect these
muscles a block should be placed beneath the back of the neck, ..."
3. Textbook of Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1905)
"The digastric muscle, as its name implies, possesses two ... The posterior belly
arises from the digastric groove beneath the mastoid rocess. ..."
4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The -occipital branch, the larger, passes backward along the superior nuchal line
of the occipital bone, and supplies the Occipitalis. The digastric Branch ..."
5. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1874)
"I have now seen it in an aged male subject, symmetrically placed on both sides,
digastric, slender, but of considerable length. On the left side it arose by ..."
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