sternomastoideus

English

Noun

sternomastoideus (plural sternomastoidei)

1. The sternomastoid muscle.
   • 2015 August 6, “A New Late Miocene Odobenid (Mammalia: Carnivora) from Hokkaido, Japan Suggests Rapid Diversification of Basal Miocene Odobenids”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Its lateral surface for the origins of the sternomastoideus and cleidomastoideus muscles is smooth probably because of the young age of the holotype individual.