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PEAUCIER

Volume 16 · 58 words · 1823 Edition

in Anatomy, a name given by Winslow, in his Treatise on the Head, and by some of the French writers, to the muscle called by Albinius latissimus colli; and by others detrahens quadratus, and quadratus genae. Santorini has called the part of this which arises from the cheek musculus risorius narius; and some call the whole platysma myoides.