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Tod's muscle (medicine) and Competent To Stand Trial (law)


Tod's muscle (medicine)


Tod's muscle -->
oblique auricular muscle
<anatomy> A thin band of oblique muscular fibres extending from the upper part of the eminence of the concha to the convexity of the helix, running across the groove corresponding to the inferior crus of the anthelix.

Synonym: musculus obliquus auriculae, oblique muscle of auricle, Tod's muscle.


Competent To Stand Trial (law)




a finding by a court, when a defendants mental competency to stand trial is at issue, that the defendant has sufficient present ability to consult with his lawyer with a reasonable degree of rational understanding, and that he has a rational as well as factual understanding of the proceedings against him.