咀嚼筋

Japanese

Kanji in this term
咀	嚼	筋
そ Hyōgai	しゃく Hyōgai	きん Grade: 6
on'yomi

Etymology

咀嚼 +‎ 筋

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) そしゃくきん [sòshákúkíń] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [so̞ɕa̠kɯ̟kʲĩɴ]

Noun

咀(そ)嚼(しゃく)筋(きん) • (soshakukin)

(anatomy) muscle of mastication

Hyponyms

咬筋(こうきん) (kōkin, “masseter muscle”)
側頭筋(そくとうきん) (sokutōkin, “temporal muscle”)
外側翼突筋(がいそくよくとつきん) (gaisokuyokutotsukin, “lateral pterygoid muscle”)
内側翼突筋(ないそくよくとつきん) (naisokuyokutotsukin, “medial pterygoid muscle”)

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN