facial muscle in dogs

A muscle innervated by a facial nerve. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the facial muscle is

A muscle innervated by a facial nerve. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the facial muscle is

It sits in the head, within the muscular system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What the facial muscle connects to

The atlas records 9 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. a kind of cranial or facial muscle.

Supply and innervation

Innervation: facial nerve.

Also called

Also recorded as face muscle, face muscle organ, facial muscle, facial muscle proper, facial nerve innervated muscle and facial nerve muscle, and 9 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001577, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: cranial or facial muscle.
• subtype: buccinator muscle, depressor labii inferioris, levator labii superioris, platysma, stapedius muscle and zygomaticus muscle.
• Develops from: pharyngeal arch 2.
• Innervated by: facial nerve.

Questions

Where is the facial muscle?

It sits in the head, within the muscular system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What does the facial muscle connect to?

A kind of: cranial or facial muscle.

Is the facial muscle the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.