panniculus carnosus
noun
                                                                                                                            
                                                            panniculus car·no·sus
                    
                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                  -kär-ˈnō-səs 
                                                      
                                                          
            
                                
              
          
                                                      : 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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