Lab 7 Flashcards
Muscles of facial expressions
- orbicularis Oris
- orbicularis oculi
- buccinator
- zygomaticus major
- frontalis
Orbicularis Oris
- action: puckers/closes lips
- attachments: maxilla and mandible - skin around the lips
Orbicularis Oculi
- action: closes eyelids
- attachments: frontal lobe - skin around the eye
Buccinator
- action: tightens cheeks, keeps food on the teeth
- attachments: maxilla and mandible - orbicularis Oris
Zygomaticus major
- action: pulls side of lip laterally and superiorly (smile)
- attachments: zygomatic bone and soft tissues of the lip
Frontalis
- action: raises eyebrows
- attachments: scalp - orbicularis oculi
Extraocular muscles
- superior rectus - SR
- inferior rectus - IR
- medial rectus - MR
- lateral rectus - LR
- superior oblique - SO
- inferior oblique - IO
Attachments
- common tendinous ring and sphenoid (maxilla) - eye
Superior rectus
- elevates and adducts eye
Inferior rectus
- depress and adduct eye
Medial rectus
- adducts eye
Lateral rectus
- abducts eye
Superior Oblique
- depresses and abducts eye
Inferior oblique
- elevates and abducts eye
Levator Palpebrae Superioris
-action: raise superior eyelid
- attachments: back of orbit - superior eye lid
Muscles of mastication
- temporalis
- masseter
- pterygoid: lateral and medial
Temporalis
- action: elevates and retracts mandible
- attachments: lateral cranium - coronoid process of mandible
Masseter
- action: elevates and protrusion of mandible
- attachments: zygomatic arch - angle of mandible
Medial Pterygoid
- action: elevates and protracts mandible, side to side grinding
- attachments: sphenoid - mandible
Lateral Pterygoid
- action: depress and protrude the mandible, side to side movement
- attachment: sphenoid - mandible
Genioglossus
- action: protracts and protrudes tongue
- attachments: mandible - tissues of the tongue
Sternocleidomastoid
- unilateral action: flexes the neck to the same side while rotating head to face opposite side
- bilateral action: extends head, flexes neck
- attachments: sternum, clavicle - mastoid process of temporal bone
Intrinsic back muscles
Erector Spinae: spinalis, longissimus, and iliocostalis
- unilateral action: laterally flex (ipsilaterally) trunk, neck and head
- bilateral action: extend trunk, neck, and head
- attachments: spinous processes, ilium, sacrum - spinous processes, transverse processes, ribs
Muscles of the thorax
- respiratory diaphragm
- Intercostal muscles: external and internal
Respiratory Diaphragm
- main muscle of respiration
- action: depresses and flattens to increase size of the thoracic cavity during inhalation
- attachments: xiphoid process, costal cartilages, ribs, lumbar vertebrae - central tendon