Crossword-Solution: BUCCINATOR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Buccinator | n. | A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “BUCCINATOR”
| Clue | Answers |
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| CHEEK wall | 1 answer |
| MUSCLE of the cheek | 1 answer |
| a flat cheek muscle used in chewing and blowing | 1 answer |
| cheek muscle | 2 answers |
| chewing muscle | 3 answers |
| MUSCLE of the body | 18 answers |
| BODY muscle(s) | 22 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
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greedy person
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Sentences with BUCCINATOR (5)
This gentleman's nose was divided into five lobes by sarcomatous tumors weighing two pounds, occupying the external surface of the face, adherent to the buccinator muscles to which they extended, and covering the chin.
Those who rate Lamarck no higher than did Huxley in his contemptuous phrase "buccinator tantum," will scarcely deny that the sound of the trumpet had carried far, or that its note was clear.
From above comes the elevator of the angle of the mouth; from the region of the cheek-bone slant downwards the two _zygomatics_, which carry the angle outwards and upwards; from behind comes the _buccinator_, or trumpeter's muscle, which simply widens the mouth by drawing the corners straight outward; from below, the depressor of the angle; not to add a seventh, sometimes well marked,--the "laughing muscle" of Santorini.
They are the sensitive nerves which supply the cranium and face, the motor nerves of the muscles of mastication, the _buccinator_ and the _masseter_, and their third branches, often called the _gustatory_, are distributed to the front portion of the tongue, and are two of the nerves of the special sense of taste.
Those who rate Lamarck no higher than did Huxley in his contemptuous phrase "_buccinator tantum_," will scarcely deny that the sound of the trumpet had carried far, or that its note was clear.