platysma

NOUN
  1. either of two broad muscles located on either side of the neck and innervated by the facial nerve; extends from lower jaw to clavicle and is involved in moving the mouth and jaw
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  • Examination of a patient with Bell's palsy shows impaired facial and platysma muscles causing drooping of the mouth and brow plus difficulty closing the eye or mouth.
  • He could throw into energetic single action the biceps, the supinator longus, the radial extensors, the platysma myoides, and many other muscles. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • -- Find the great cornu and make an incision about an inch and a half in length through the skin and platysma, two lines above and parallel with it; push up the sub-maxillary gland and find the tendon of the digastric muscle, and the hypoglossal nerve; free this nerve and divide the muscle; open the sheath of the artery; isolate and ligate it. An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.
  • He discovered the function of the motor nerves by cutting them experimentally, and so producing paralysis of the muscles; the platysma, interossei, and popliteus muscles were first described by him. Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine
  • After the skin and platysma are divided, the posterior belly of the digastric must be recognised, which again will guide to the posterior edge of the hyo-glossus. A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
  • The Professor tells me there is a muscular slip, a dependence of the platysma myoides, which is called the risorius Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
  • —The external carotid artery is covered by the skin, superficial fascia, Platysma, deep fascia, and anterior margin of the Sternocleidomastoideus; it is crossed by the hypoglossal nerve, by the lingual, ranine, common facial, and superior thyroid veins; and by the Digastricus and Stylohyoideus; higher up it passes deeply into the substance of the parotid gland, where it lies deep to the facial nerve and the junction of the temporal and internal maxillary veins. VI. The Arteries. 3a. 2. The External Carotid Artery
  • However, submental electrode placement has the disadvantage of recording from the geniohyoid, mylohyoid, and platysma, as well as the genioglossus, thus complicating interpretation of the signal.
  • A small light aids him as he suctions and cuts out the fat and stitches together the pink platysma muscle.
  • Without the help of the epicranius, zygomaticus, triangurlis, quadratus labii, buccinator and platysma, Little Red Riding Hood would have been little more than a silhouette through closed eyelids. Muscles Part 2
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