The digastric muscle (also digastricus) (named digastric as it has two 'bellies') is a bilaterally paired suprahyoid muscle located under the jaw. Its...

suprahyoid muscles are four muscles located above the hyoid bone in the neck. They are the digastric, stylohyoid, geniohyoid, and mylohyoid muscles. They are...

contralateral digastric muscle, Anterior belly of ipsilateral digastric muscle Level IB: Body of mandible, Posterior belly of digastric muscle, Anterior belly...

Suprahyoid muscles Digastric muscle Stylohyoid muscle Geniohyoid muscle Mylohyoid muscle Inferior Thyrohyoid muscle Omohyoid muscle Sternohyoid muscle Sternothyroid...

nerve. It provides motor innervation the mylohyoid muscle, and the anterior belly of the digastric muscle. It provides sensory innervation to part of the...

biting and chewing. Other muscles are responsible for opening the jaw, namely the geniohyoid, mylohyoid, and digastric muscles (the lateral pterygoid may...

attachment of the sternocleidomastoid, the posterior belly of the digastric muscle, splenius capitis, and longissimus capitis. On the medial side of the...

mylohyoid muscle is flat and triangular, and is situated immediately superior to the anterior belly of the digastric muscle. It is a pharyngeal muscle (derived...

superficial surface of the mylohyoid muscle between the anterior and posterior bellies of the digastric muscle. The space corresponds to the anatomic...

perforated near its insertion by the intermediate tendon of the digastric muscle. The muscle arises from the posterior surface of the temporal styloid process;...