Lexic.us

Definition of Facial muscle

1. Noun. Any of the skeletal muscles of the face.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Facial Muscle

Literary usage of Facial muscle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Practical Dissections by Richard Manning Hodges (1858)
"... the origin of several facial muscle*, it should be dissected up so as to expose them. The LEVATOR LABII SUPERIORIS, ALAEQUE NASI occupies the depression ..."

2. The Popular Science Monthly (1874)
"... that is to say, that each passion seems to have at its command a facial muscle which contracts so soon as the soul is moved by this passion. ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1874)
"... that is to say, that each passion seems to have at its command a facial muscle which contracts so soon as the soul is moved by this passion. ..."

4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Luther Holden (1878)
"... passes into the parotid gland and is distributed to the facial muscle«, its branches running towards the temple, the eye, the cheek, and the jaw. ..."

5. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1883)
"This nerve, after emerging from the stylo-mastoid foramen, passes into the parotid gland and is distributed to the facial muscle?, it> branches running ..."

6. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1919)
"... of volitional or emotional control of the paralyzed facial muscle, a fact he attributes to the operative methods of anastomosis hitherto practiced. ..."

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