Anat. [a. L. buccinātor, agent-noun f. buccināre to blow the crooked trumpet. So called because it is the chief muscle employed in the act of blowing.]
Name for a flat thin muscle that forms the wall of the cheek. Also attrib.
1671. trans. Riolanus’ Sure Guide Physick, 220. Vulgarly termed Buccinator, or the Trumpeter, it were more rightly called Bucco the Cheek driver.
1746. R. James, Introd. Mouffet’s Health’s Improv., 2. The Food is then applied to the double Teeth … by the various actions of the Buccinators.
1831. R. Knox, Cloquet’s Anat., 269. The Buccinator … is much larger in glass-blowers and persons who play on wind instruments than in other individuals.
1842. Blackw. Mag., LI. 46. Two or three [frogs] are blowing out their buccinators.
