Facial muscle attached to the modiolus, corner (angle) of the mouth, and zygomatic bone. This muscle is ventral to the zygomaticus minor and dorsal to the platysma muscle. In many mammals this muscle also has an attachment to the cartilage of the external ear, in which case it is called the auriculolabialis inferior. See Diogo 2008; Diogo et al., 2009; Burrows et al.., 2011., also DuBrul, 1980. [ MFMO:0000138 ]
Synonyms: musculus quadratus labii superioris, zygomatic head musculus zygomaticus minor square muscle of the upper lip, zygomatic head
Term information
- Wikipedia:Zygomaticus_minor_muscle
- NCIT:C53184
- FMA:46811
- UMLS:C0224116 (ncithesaurus:Zygomaticus_Minor)
- SCTID:244741006
- MFMO:0000137
feed_aligned, human_reference_atlas
Term relations
- facial muscle and dorsal to some skin of body and dorsal to some zygomaticus major muscle and attached to some orbicularis oris muscle and attached to some facial modiolus and attached to some anterior root of zygomatic arch
- facial muscle
- zygomaticus muscle
- attached to some orbicularis oris muscle
- dorsal to some skin of body
- attached to some facial modiolus
- attached to some anterior root of zygomatic arch
- dorsal to some zygomaticus major muscle
- innervated_by some facial nerve