procerus muscle

[ prō-sîr′əs ]

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A muscle with origin from the membrane covering the bridge of the nose, with insertion into the frontal bone, with nerve supply from a branch of the facial nerve, and whose action assists the frontal bone.

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Security guards have also been posted to add some muscle (but this has done little to deter vandals in past years).
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Companies like Delta, Apple, and Nike flex their political muscle on behalf of gay rights.
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The bell tower bellows loudly when a little muscle power is put into it.
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When it comes to tangible gifts, the sharing economy really starts to flex its holiday disrupting muscle.
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I can see the implant in there, and see where the muscle is snatching that implant up.
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The strength of the lion is tremendous, owing to the immense mass of muscle around its jaws, shoulders, and forearms.
Hunting the Lions|R.M. Ballantyne
The man was accustomed to the French of Englishmen, and withdrew without moving a muscle of his face.
Elster's Folly|Mrs. Henry Wood
He was a man of gigantic muscle, and seizing the arm of Louis, called aloud to bar the egress.
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In this country an unexplained marked eosinophilia warrants examination of a portion of muscle for Trichina spiralis (p. 255).
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
The second pair show that the transverse processes, from the first to the third, are those into which the muscle is inserted.
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