Face and Scalp Flashcards
What is this muscle?
Mentalis
What are the layers of the scalp from external to internal?
Skin Connective tissue Aponeurosis (between frontalis and occipitalis) Loose areolar connective tissue Periosteum (pericranium)
What are the arteries that supply the face?
Facial artery (branch of ECA)
Transverse facial artery (branch of superficial temporal artery)
Supratrochlear and Supraorbital branch off ICA to forehead
What is this muscle?
Buccinator
What does levator anguli superioris do?
Elevates the corners of the lips
What muscle allows for this expression?
Nasalis
What muscles make this expression?
Levator labii superioris
Depressor labii inferioris
What muscles are supplied by the buccal branch of the facial nerve? (7)
Zygomaticus major and minor Levator labii superioris Levator anguli oris Buccinator Orbicularis oris Nasalis
What is the clinical importance of emissary veins?
Forms a communication between the superficial veins of the scalp in the connective tissue layer and the dural venous sinuses
Gives a potential route for infection to pass to the meninges
What is this muscle?
Levator Anguli Oris
What is this muscle?
Zygomaticus Major
What is this muscle?
Platysma
What is this muscle?
Depressor Labii Inferioris
What muscle makes this movement?
Occipito-Frontalis
What is highlighted?
Sphenoid bone
What muscle is responsible for this expression?
Platysma
What muscle allows for this expression?
Orbicularis Oris
What is this muscles?
Depressor Anguli Oris
What muscle allows this movement?
Orbicularis oculi
What muscles can create this facial expression?
Zygomaticus Major and Minor
What is this muscle?
Orbicularis Oculii