cranial muscle
Any skeletal muscle that is part of the head region. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the cranial muscle is
Any skeletal muscle that is part of the head region. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the cranial muscle is
It sits in the head, within the muscular system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.
What the cranial muscle connects to
The atlas records 12 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of craniocervical region, head and musculature, and 1 more.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the cranial muscle. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.
Also called
Also recorded as cephalic muscle, cephalic musculature, head muscle, head muscle organ, muscle of head and muscle organ of adult head, and 5 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002376, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: craniocervical region, head, musculature and skeletal musculature of head.
- A kind of: anatomical structure and skeletal muscle organ, vertebrate.
- Attaches to: skull.
- subtype: facial muscle, masticatory muscle and muscle of auditory ossicle.
- Develops from: head mesenchyme from mesoderm.
- contains: medial rectus extraocular muscle.
Questions
Where is the cranial muscle?
It sits in the head, within the muscular system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.
What does the cranial muscle connect to?
Part of: craniocervical region, head, musculature and skeletal musculature of head.
Is the cranial 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.