buccinator muscle

The buccinator is a muscle that is attached to the mandible, skin, pterygomandibular raphe and maxilla, and is innervated by Cranial Nerve VII and participates in oropharyngeal behavior. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the buccinator muscle is

The buccinator is a muscle that is attached to the mandible, skin, pterygomandibular raphe and maxilla, and is innervated by Cranial Nerve VII and participates in oropharyngeal behavior. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the buccinator muscle is

It sits in the head, within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the buccinator muscle connects to

The atlas records 10 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. a kind of facial muscle.

Supply and innervation

Arterial supply: buccal artery. Innervation: facial nerve.

Also called

Also recorded as buccinator, musculus buccinator, trumpeters muscle and buccinatorius. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001582, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: facial muscle.
• Attaches to: facial modiolus, mandible, maxilla, pterygomandibular raphe and skin of body.
• Innervated by: facial nerve.
• inserts into: facial modiolus.
• originates from: alveolar ridge of mandible.
• Supplied by: buccal artery.

Questions

Where is the buccinator muscle?

It sits in the head, within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the buccinator muscle connect to?

A kind of: facial muscle.

Is the buccinator muscle the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.