Crossword-Solution: MASSETER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Masseter | n. | The large muscle which raises the under jaw, and assists in mastication. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MASSETER | anagram | SEAMSTER, STEAMERS |
We have 7 clues for the answer “MASSETER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Chewing muscle of lower jaw. | 1 answer |
| Lower jaw muscle. | 1 answer |
| muscle of the cheek used in moving the jaw, esp in chewing | 1 answer |
| cheek muscle | 2 answers |
| jaw muscle | 2 answers |
| chewing muscle | 3 answers |
| A LARGE MUSCLE THAT RAISES THE LOWER JAW AND IS USED IN CHEWING | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TERAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MASSETER (5)
The nucleated cells found connected with the cancellated structure of the bones, which I first pointed out and had figured in 1847, and have shown yearly from that time to the present, and the fossa masseterica, a shallow concavity on the ramus of the lower jaw, for the lodgment of the masseter muscle, which acquires significance when examined by the side of the deep cavity on the corresponding part in some carnivora to which it answers, may perhaps be claimed as deserving attention.
The suspension of the lower jaw, so as to bring the teeth nearer the power,--the masseter and related muscles,--was a slow evolution and a great advance.
One of the most powerful of them, the 'masseter', rises from the superior maxillary bone, and spreads over its whole extent: therefore, that bone is developed, while the nasal bone is compressed into a very small space.
Two important muscles, the temporal, near the temples, and the masseter, or chewing muscle, are the chief agents in moving the lower jaw.
The _facial_ artery can be distinctly felt as it passes over the upper jaw at the front edge of the masseter muscle.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1945–1955).