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Muscle spindle supply to the bovine jaw muscles
The Anatomical Record
|August 1, 1980
Abstract:
The jaw-closing muscles of two bovine fetuses average 1,177 muscle spindles on one side of the face: 549 in the masseter, 433 in the temporalis, 192 in the medial pterygoid, and three in the lateral pterygoid. The jaw-opening muscles have no spindles.