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The muscle arises from the roughly semicircular planum temporale, situated below the inferior temporal line, and from the region of the temporal fossa. Together with its superficial part, which also arises from the deep lamina of the temporal fascia, it makes up in adults approximately 37.5% of the total mass of the muscles of mastication on each side. Its physiological cross-section amounts to approximately 4.1 cm2. For further details see Lanz/Wachs- Muth, Praktische Anatomie, Vol. I, 1C.
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Lang, J. (1981). Pituitary Region and Anterior Cranial Fossa: Approaches via the Cranium. In: Clinical Anatomy of the Head. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68242-1_6
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