facial muscle

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 human body.

Where the facial muscle is

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

What the facial muscle connects to

The atlas records 21 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of musculature of face.

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.

• Part of: musculature of face.
• A kind of: cranial muscle.
• subtype: buccinator muscle, depressor anguli oris muscle, depressor labii inferioris, depressor supercilii, levator anguli oris and levator labii superioris, and 11 more.
• Develops from: pharyngeal arch 2.
• Innervated by: facial nerve.

Questions

Where is the facial muscle?

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

What does the facial muscle connect to?

Part of: musculature of face.

Is the facial 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.