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panniculus carnosus
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panniculus car·no·sus
\-kär-ˈnō-səs\
Medical Definition of panniculus carnosus
: a thin sheet of striated muscle lying within or just beneath the superficial fascia, serving to produce local movement of the skin, and well developed in many lower mammals but in humans represented primarily by the platysma
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