Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

digastric muscle

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.17 in modern English

Syllables: di-gas-tric -mus-cle
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

5

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Either of a pair of muscles having two fleshy ends connected by a tendon that depress the lower jaw and raise the hyoid bone during swallowing.

Inflected Forms

digastric muscles (plural) digastric (alternative) digastricus (alternative)

Questions

What does digastric muscle mean?: Either of a pair of muscles having two fleshy ends connected by a tendon that depress the lower jaw and raise the hyoid bone during swallowing.

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