Etymology · Late Latin
temporālis
2 English words descend from Late Latin temporālis, most common first.
- temporalOf or relating to the material world, as opposed to sacred or clerical.
- temporalisA fan-shaped muscle which arises from the surface of the temporal fossa and converges to an aponeurosis which contracts into a thick flat tendon inserted into the coronoid process of the mandible; it serves to raise the lower jaw and is involved in closing the mouth and chewing.