Contusion of the platysma could be a sign of choking or strangulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator] Reference

I. Facial vein and artery seen beneath the facial fibres of the platysma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

Biological study of the functions of living organisms and their parts. platysma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

The skin, the fascia, and platysma muscle, the sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle, the deep layer of the cervical fascia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

After that, you can tell a fake smile because the risorius and platysma muscles pull the lower lip down and out, squaring it and exposing the lower teeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary]

Subcutaneous platysma myoides muscle, lying on the face, neck, and upper part of chest, and covering the structures contained in the two surgical triangles of the neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

At this place, if an incision, dividing the skin, platysma and some superficial branches of nerves, be made along the anterior border of the sterno-mastoid muscle, and this latter be turned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

Without the help of the epicranius, zygomaticus, triangurlis, quadratus labii, buccinator and platysma, Little Red Riding Hood would have been little more than a silhouette through closed eyelids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Muscles Part 2] Reference

He discovered the function of the motor nerves by cutting them experimentally, and so producing paralysis of the muscles; the platysma, interossei, and popliteus muscles were first described by him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine] Reference

All these structures, except some of the lymphatic glands, are concealed by the platysma myoides A, as seen in Plate 3, and beneath this by the cervical fascia, which latter shall be hereafter more clearly represented.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

Several persons have pointed out my error about the platysma.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

It must include skin, fascia, and platysma, and the flap must be thrown upwards.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference

In all cases the contraction of the platysma causes the wound to gape widely, and its edges tend to be turned in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

The Professor tells me there is a muscular slip, a dependence of the platysma myoides, which is called the risorius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autocrat of the Breakfast Table] Reference

In only four of the cases was the platysma visibly contracted; and it did not begin to contract until the patients began to cry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The expression of the emotions in man and animals] Reference

He could throw into energetic single action the biceps, the supinator longus, the radial extensors, the platysma myoides, and many other muscles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Unfortunately I have not been able to ascertain whether, when the whole body shakes, as in the cold stage of an ague fit, the platysma contracts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The expression of the emotions in man and animals] Reference

Cautiously divide skin, platysma, and fascia; the lower end of the parotid must be pulled upwards, and the veins, which are numerous, cautiously separated.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference

None of the foregoing cases appear to throw any light on the contraction of the platysma from fear; but it is different, I think, with the following cases.    From Wordnik.com.  [The expression of the emotions in man and animals] Reference

In some other cases of extreme difficulty of respiration, though not requiring tracheotomy, observed by Drs. Ogle and Langstaff, the platysma was not contracted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The expression of the emotions in man and animals] Reference

In a fifth case, the patient, who was not chloroformed, was much terrified; and his platysma was more forcibly and persistently contracted than in the other cases.    From Wordnik.com.  [The expression of the emotions in man and animals] Reference

It is covered by the integument, platysma, and cellular tissue, -- the facial vein being on its temporal side and some branches of the facial nerve running across it.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference

Dr.W. Ogle observed two male patients, suffering from such difficulty in breathing, that the trachea had to be opened, and in both the platysma was strongly contracted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The expression of the emotions in man and animals] Reference

After the skin, platysma, and muscles have been divided, as already described, the deep cervical fascia requires division close to the inner edge of the scalenus anticus.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference

I have caught myself giving a little involuntary shudder at a painful thought, and I distinctly perceived that my platysma contracted; so it does if I simulate a shudder.    From Wordnik.com.  [The expression of the emotions in man and animals] Reference

Dr. Duchenne has given another photograph of the same old man, with the platysma contracted, the eyes and mouth opened, and the eyebrows rendered oblique, by means of galvanism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The expression of the emotions in man and animals] Reference

Now, whenever a person starts at any sudden sight or sound, he instantaneously draws a deep breath; and thus the contraction of the platysma may possibly have become associated with the sense of fear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The expression of the emotions in man and animals] Reference

A man may exhibit extreme terror in the plainest manner by death-like pallor, by drops of perspiration on his skin, and by utter prostration, with all the muscles of his body, including the platysma, completely relaxed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The expression of the emotions in man and animals] Reference

Referring to his own postmortem report he said: "There was also a left platysma muscle contusion on the left side of the neck and also similar but smaller signs on the right.    From Wordnik.com.  [SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator] Reference

F. Part of the platysma muscle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

Upper part of the platysma muscle cut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

Contraction of the platysma myoides muscle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The expression of the emotions in man and animals] Reference

O. Facial artery seen through fibres of platysma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

Integument, fascia, platysma, external jugular, supra scapula, and transverse cervical veins, cervical plexus subclavius muscle, supra scapular vessels, and clavicle.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference

Integument, fascia, platysma, sterno-mastoid, sterno-thyroid, omo-hyoid, descenden noni nerve, sterno-mastoid artery, superior and mid: thyroid veins, and anterior ugular.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference