Face and Scalp Flashcards
Identify the indicated regions of the head
What is the name of lines for skin tension?
Langer lines
Identify the indicated surface facial features
Are individual facial muscles responsible for individual facial expression?
No, facial muscles work together to create specific expressions. They blend and overalp with each other.
What is the name of the fibers that attach facial muscles to skin?
retinacula
What muscle is indicated on the provided image?
Attachment points?
Innervation (nerves & arteries)?
Function?
Occipitofrontalis
Frontal belly
- Attachment
- Origin
- epicranial aponeurosis
- Insertion
- skin of forehead adn eyebrows
- Origin
- Innervation
- Nerve:
- Facial Nerve (CNVII)
- Nerve:
- Function
- elevates eyebrows
Occipital Belly
- Attachment
- Origin
- superior nuchal line
- Insertion
- epicranial aponeurosis
- Origin
- Innervation
- Nerve
- Facial nerve (CNVII)
- Nerve
- Function:
- retract scalp
What muscle is indicated on the provided image?
Attachment points?
Innervation ?
Function?
Corrugator Supercilii (paired)
- Attachment
- Origin
- medial end of superciliary arch
- Insertion
- Skin under medial eyebrow
- Origin
- Innervation
- Nerve
- Facial Nerve (CNVII)
- Nerve
- Function:
- drawy eyebrows medially and inferiorly
- creates vertical lines on meidal eyebrows
What muscle is indicated on the provided image?
Attachment points?
Innervation (nerves & arteries)?
Function?
Procerus
- Attachment
- Origin
- nasal bone on lateral nasal cartiledge
- Insertion
- skin on lower forehead between eyebrows
- Origin
- Innervatoin
- Nerve
- Facial nerve (CNVII)
- Nerve
- Function:
- Pull medial angle of eyebrows inferiorly
- produces transverse lines over glabella (between eyebrows)
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What muscle is indicated on the provided image?
Attachment points?
Innervation (nerves & arteries)?
Function?
Orbicularis Oculi
- Attachment
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Orbital part
- Origin: medial orbital margin
- Insertion: skin around margin of orbit
- Palpebral part
- Origin: medial palpabral ligament
- Insertion: superior and inferior tarsal plates (upper and lower eyelid)
- Lacrimal part
- Origin: lacrimal bone
- Insertion: posterior to lacrimal sac
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Orbital part
- Innervation
- Nerve
- Facial Nerve (CNVII)
- Nerve
- Function
- close the eye
What is the name of the merging point for many of the oral muscles at the corner of the mouth?
modiolus
What muscle is indicated on the provided image?
Attachment points?
Innervation (nerves & arteries)?
Function?
Obicularis Oris
- Attachment
- Origin:
- medial maxilla and mandible
- deep surface of perioral skin
- angle of mouth (modeolus)
- Insertion
- mucous membrane of the lips
- Origin:
- Innervation
- Nerve
- Facial Nerve (CNVII)
- Nerve
- Function
- encircles mouth and controls entry and exit through oral fissure
- Important for speech
- resist teeth from protruding out
- first sphincter of the digestive system
What muscle is indicated on the provided image?
Attachment points?
Innervation (nerves & arteries)?
Function?
Buccinator
- Attachment
- origin:
- alveolar process of maxilla and mandible
- pterygomandiblular raphe
- Insertion
- angle of the mouth – mixes with fibers of the obicularis oris
- origin:
- Innervation
- Nerve
- Facial Nerve (VII)
- Nerve
- Function
- presses cheek agains molar teeth (cheek taught)
- works with tongue to keep food where it shoudl be
- Resists distension (blowing a trumpet)
- smiling
- sucking
What is the structure that give infants their big cheeks? What is its function?
buccal fat pad
prevents collapse of cheeks during sucking
What muscle is indicated on the provided image?
Attachment points?
Innervation (nerves & arteries)?
Function?
- Zygomaticus Major
- Attachment
- Origin
- Zygomatic bone (slightly postior to minor)
- Insertion
- skin of mouth (modeolus)
- Origin
- Innervation
- Nerve
- Facial Nerve (CNVII)
- Nerve
- Function
- pull corner of mouth superiorly and laterally (bilateral = smile)
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- pull corner of mouth superiorly and laterally (bilateral = smile)
What muscle is indicated on the provided image?
Attachment points?
Innervation (nerves & arteries)?
Function?
Zygomaticus Minor
- Attachment
- Origin
- Zygomatic bone (slightly anterior to major)
- Insertion
- upper lip (medial to corner of mouth)
- Origin
- Innervation
- Nerve
- Facial Nerve (CNVII)
- Nerve
- Function
- pull upper lip superiorly
What muscle is indicated on the provided image?
Attachment points?
Innervation (nerves & arteries)?
Function?
Risorius
- Attachment
- Origin
- parotid and massenteric fascia
- buccal skin
- Insertion
- angle of the mouth
- Origin
- Innervation
- Nerve
- Facial Nerve (CNVII)
- Nerve
- Function
- pull corner of mouth more lateral
What muscle is indicated on the provided image?
Attachment points?
Innervation (nerves & arteries)?
Function?
Levator Labii Superior
- Attachment
- Origin
- infraorbital margin
- Insertion
- skin upper lip
- Origin
- Innervation
- Nerve
- Facial Nerve (CNVII)
- Nerve
- Function
- elevate upper lip (deepen nasal labial sulcus)
What muscle is indicated on the provided image?
Attachment points?
Innervation (nerves & arteries)?
Function?
Depressor Labii Inferior
- Attachment
- Origin
- platysma and anterior body on mandible
- Insertion
- skin lower lip
- Origin
- Innervation
- Nerve
- Facial Nerve (VII)
- Nerve
- Function
- pull lowe lip inferiorly
- active during big smile to open oral fissure