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craniomandibular muscles: (english) Paired head muscles in heterodontoid sharks that originate from long tendons on the medial walls of the orbits that extend below and transverse to the levator palatoquadrati and spiracular constrictor muscles and behind the spiracles to insert on the posterodorsolateral face of the Meckel's cartilages. They are found in no other sharks and may serve to retract or elevate the jaws. (See also: cranium, Meckel's cartilage)

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