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buccinator: tags: [anatomy]

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the muscle forming the wall of the cheek

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—Buccinator muscle is... What?... Bit rusty... O, she is... My Irish Molly, O.

He puffed a pungent plumy blast.

James Joyce. Ulysses

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raised his head till he could just see the cornice of the room, and then directing the buccinatory muscles along his cheeks, and the orbicular muscles around his lips to do their duty—he whistled Lillabullero.

Laurence Sterne. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759)

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