platysma

1. 1.

   either of two broad muscles located on either side of the neck and innervated by the facial nerve; extends from lower jaw to clavicle and is involved in moving the mouth and jaw

   Broaderfacial muscle

Other forms of platysma

plural

platysmas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about platysma

What does platysma mean?

platysma means "either of two broad muscles located on either side of the neck and innervated by the facial nerve; extends from lower jaw to clavicle and is involved in moving the mouth and jaw".

How many syllables are in platysma?

platysma has 3 syllables: pla-ty-sma. The stress falls on "pla".

Is platysma a common word?

platysma is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.