Buccinator muscle refer in Roman antiquity to a crooked horn or trumpet, a shepherd's horn or a war-trumpet. Despite its similarity to the classical Latin name for cheek, i.e. bucca, the words "bucinator", "bucina", and "bucinere" (to blow the bucina) are not related to "bucca", hence some disapproved the spelling "buccinator". Although the name "bucinator" is not derived from "bucca", this muscle is also called "musculus buccae" or "musculus buccalis" in Latin and muscle of the cheek in English. The most recent official Latin anatomic nomenclature ("Terminologia Anatomica"), and preceding editions ("Nomina Anatomica") Buccinator muscle The buccinator ( ) is a thin
Reduced muscle mass, strength and performance in space vascular changes, including a significant decrease in red blood cell mass, that affect skeletal muscle function. This normal adaptive response to the microgravity environment is, for the most part, of little consequence within the space vehicle "per se", but may become a liability resulting in increased risk of an inability or decreased efficiency in crewmember performance of physically demanding tasks during extravehicular activity (EVA) or abrupt transitions to environments of increased gravity (return to Earth, landing on the surface of another planetary body). In the U.S. human space program, the only in-flight countermeasure to skeletal muscle functional deficits that has