buccinator Anat.
(ˈbʌksɪneɪtə(r))
[a. L. buccinātor, agent-noun f. buccināre to blow the crooked trumpet. So called because it is the chief muscle employed in the act of blowing.]
Name for a flat thin muscle which forms the wall of the cheek. Also attrib.
| 1671 tr. Riolanus' Sure Guide Physick 220 Vulgarly termed Buccinator, or the Trumpeter, it were more rightly called Bucco the Cheek driver. 1746 R. James Introd. Mouffet's Health's Improv. 2 The Food is then applied to the double Teeth..by the various actions of the Buccinators. 1831 R. Knox Cloquet's Anat. 269 The Buccinator..is much larger in glass-blowers and persons who play on wind instruments than in other individuals. 1842 Blackw. Mag. LI. 46 Two or three [frogs] are blowing out their buccinators. |