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Mycobacterium kansasii (medicine) and temporal muscle (medicine)


Mycobacterium kansasii (medicine)


mycobacterium kansasii


A slow-growing, photochromogenic species that is the aetiologic agent of a tuberculosis-like disease in humans and is frequently isolated from human pulmonary secretions or tubercles. The incidence of infection is sharply increased among immunocompromised individuals.


temporal muscle (medicine)


temporal muscle
<anatomy> A masticatory muscle whose action is closing the jaws; its posterior portion retracts the mandible.