Masseter is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 338 anagrams from letters in masseter (aeemrsst).
1660-70; New Latin Greek massētḗr, variant of masētḗr chewer, masseter, equivalent to masē-, variant stem of masâsthai to chew + -tēr agentive suffix
The lateral division consisted of temporal and masseter masses.
But in Captorhinus the masseter arose from the lower part of the cheek close to the outer surface of the coronoid process.
Consequently, the masseter was able to extend from an anterodorsal origin to a posterior and ventral insertion.
Presumably the muscle was sheetlike and attached to the skull roof, medial to the attachment of the masseter.
The muscles of this group which specially interest us are the masseter and the temporal.
Like the masseter, the temporal is an elevator of the lower jaw.
There is often a very much enlarged infra-orbital foramen through which passes a part of the masseter muscle.
This ridge presumably marks the upper limits of the origin of the masseter from the squamosal.
Finally there is evidence for an adductor between the temporal and masseter masses.
The masseteric fossa receives the insertion of the rostral or superficial division of the masseter muscle.