Bangkok: Bangkok, city, capital, and chief port of Thailand. It is the only cosmopolitan city in a country of small towns and villages and is Thailandâs cultural and commercial centre. Bangkok is located on the delta of the Chao Phraya River, about 25 miles (40 km) from the Gulf of Thailand. It was formerly
This muscle inserts â all the muscles of mastication inserts onto the mandible because the mandible is the bone that moves to cause mastication. Itâs the bone which is involved in chewing. The temporalis inserts onto the coronoid process of the mandible. Thatâs this anterior process here. If we just have a look at that, it just inserts here.
The masseter muscle, important in chewing, arises from the lower edge of the arch; another major chewing muscle, the temporalis, passes through the arch. The zygomatic arch is particularly large and robust in herbivorous animals, including baboons and apes. In human evolution the zygomatic arch has tended to become more gracile (slender).