Axial Muscles Flashcards
What are the six muscles of facial expression?
Zygomaticus major, orbicularis oris, orbicularis oculi, depressor anguli oris, frontalis, and buccinator
What is the smile muscle?
Zygomaticus major
What two muscles are sphincter/circular muscles?
Orbicularis oculi and oris
What is the frowning muscle?
Depressor anguli oris
What muscle closes the eyelids and attaches to the skin around the eyes and within the skin of face?
Orbicularis oculi
What muscle closes the lips and attaches to the skin around the mouth and within the skin of the face?
Orbicularis oris
What are the three muscles of mastification?
Temporalis, masseter, and pterygoids
What muscle raises the eyebrow and attaches to the skin of the forehead and within the skin of the face?
Frontalis
What muscle elevates the angle of the mouth and and attaches at the angle of mouth and anterior zygomatic bone?
Zygomaticus major
What muscle tightens the cheeks and holds food for the teeth while chewing with attachments of the mandible/maxilla and within skin of face?
Buccinator
What muscle depresses the angle of the mouth and attaches to the angle of mouth and mandible?
Depressor anguli oris
What muscle elevates and retracts the mandible with attachments at the lateral cranium and coronoid process of mandible?
Temporalis
What muscle elevates and protracts the mandible and functions to side to side grinding with the sphenoid and mandible as attachments?
Pterygoids
What muscle elevates the mandible and has the mandible and zygomatic arch as attachments?
Masseter
What are the four muscles of the neck and tongue?
Genioglossus, suprahyoid, infrahyoid, and sternocleidomastoid
What two muscles are deep to the masseter?
Pterygoids
What eye muscle depresses and adducts the eye and attaches to the eye and posterior orbit?
Inferior rectus
What eye muscle abducts the eye and attaches to the eye and posterior orbit?
Lateral rectus
What eye muscle depresses and abducts the eye and attaches to the eye and posterior orbit?
Superior oblique
What eye muscle elevates and adducts the eye and attaches to the eye and posterior orbit?
Superior rectus
What eye muscle adducts the eye and attaches to the eye and posterior orbit?
Medial rectus