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Definition: MASSETER |
MASSETERNoun1. The large muscle which raises the under jaw, and assists in mastication. |
Crosswords: MASSETER |
| English words defined with "MASSETER": Masseteric. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "MASSETER": make parallel incisions, Masseter Muscle. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Tetanus is induced by an exotoxin of the tetanus bacillus (Clostridium tetani), which grows anaerobically at site of injury. Tetanus is characterized by painful muscular contractions, primarily of the masseter, and other large muscles.Credit: CDC. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expression using "MASSETER": Masseter Muscle. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
masseter | 10 |
masseter muscle | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "MASSETER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | tyggemuskel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kauwspier. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | masséter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Kaumuskel (jaw muscle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | μασητήρας. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | massetere. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | assetermay massétero. (various references) masetero. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | musculus masseter. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "MASSETER": masseteric, masseters. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "MASSETER" (pronounced 'Mas"se*ter'): Abutter, Acater, Accelerometer, Accipiter, Acetimeter, Acetometer, Acidimeter, Acoumeter, Acquitter, Acroter, Actinometer, Adelaster, Admitter, Adulter, Aerometer, Aflutter, Aglitter, Airometer, Alabaster, Albuminimeter, Alcalimeter, Aleurometer, Algometer, Alkalimeter, Allotter, Altimeter, Altometer, Ammeter, Amphiaster, Amylobacter, Amylometer, Anemometer, Anglemeter, Angulometer, Animater, Anthracometer, Antimeter, Antitrochanter, Apomecometer, Apporter, Araeometer, Archiater, Archpresbyter, Areometer, Arithmometer, Astrolater, Astrometer, Astrophotometer, Atmidometer, Atmometer. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: seamster, steamers. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-m-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: easters, masters, remates, reseats, reteams, seamers, searest, seaters, steamer, streams, teasers, tessera. | |
-2 letters: ameers, aretes, armets, assert, asters, easter, eaters, erases, esters, marses, masers, master, maters, matres, merest, meters, metres, ramees, ramets, reests, remate, reseat, resets, reteam, retems, sarees, seamer, seater, serest, sesame, smarts, smears, stares, steams, steers, steres, stream, tamers, teaser. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-m-r-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: gamesters, masseters, masteries, remasters, seamsters, semestral, smeariest, steersman, stemwares, streamers, teamsters. | |
+2 letters: dermatoses, elastomers, gasometers, masseteric, mattresses, miscreates, misrelates, salometers, seamstress, semestrial, sidestream, smartweeds, smatterers, stammerers, stampeders, streambeds, streamiest, streamlets, streamside, timesavers. | |
+3 letters: arrestments, asymmetries, atmospheres, blastomeres, easternmost, escarpments, headmasters, headstreams, housemaster, manifesters, marquessate, martensites, menservants, menstruates, metamerisms, metaphrases, monasteries, overmasters, reestimates, smartnesses, spermacetis, steelmakers, stereograms, streamlines, streamsides, streetlamps, tastemakers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 41 53 53 45 54 45 52 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- ... ... . - . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01000001 01010011 01010011 01000101 01010100 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M A S S E T E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0041 0053 0053 0045 0054 0045 0052 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4735535339543952 |
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