Usually means: Thin muscle covering neck, jaw.
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  1. platysma: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
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Definitions from Wiktionary (platysma)

noun:  (anatomy) A superficial muscle of the human neck that overlaps the sternocleidomastoid.

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