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Also known as jowl, buccal cavity

formazioni muscolo membranose tra il mascellare e la mandibola

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Your cheeks are the areas of your face located below your eyes and between your nose and ears, and they're connected to your mouth through an inner region called the buccal cavity that sits between your teeth and gums. This anatomical feature is important because it's a distinct facial region with its own nerve supply (the buccal nerve) and serves as part of your mouth's structure, while similar features in other animals are sometimes called jowls.

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Key facts

Anatomy.Name
Cheek
Anatomy.Latin
bucca
Anatomy.Image
File:Cheek.jpg
Anatomy.Caption
Cheek of a female human
Anatomy.Image2
File:Sobo 1909 260 - Zygomaticus major muscle.png
Anatomy.Caption2
A diagram detailing human facial muscles, including the zygomaticus major (red), which is contained within the cheeks and is integral to the action of smiling
Anatomy.Artery
Buccal artery
Anatomy.Nerve
Buccal nerve, buccal branch of the facial nerve

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Wikidata facts

Image
Sobo 1909 260.png
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Commons category
Cheeks
arterial supply
buccal artery
NCI Thesaurus ID
C13070
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Article · Italiano

Le guance (lat. genae, nell'ambito medico buccae) sono formazioni muscolo-membranose tra il mascellare e la mandibola tese a formare, in continuità con le labbra, la parete laterale del vestibolo della bocca.

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