lecture 5 facial muscles Flashcards
what are the 4 muscles of chewing “mastication”
temporalis
masseter
medial or internal pterygoid
lateral or external pterygoid
what muscles open the jaw
lateral / external pterygoid
what muscles close the jaw
masseter
temporalis
medial/internal pterygoid
what makes up the pterygoid process in the sphenoid bone
hamulus
medial and lateral pterygoid plate
when performing a resisted muscle test where should you apply resistance?
distal to the muscle insertion
4 T’s of palpation
temperature
tone
tenderness
texture
which muscle is not striated
smooth
the covering around each individual muscle fibre is called
endomysium
in which order do the fontanelles ossify in
posterior, sphenoid, mastoid, anterior
lambda, pterion, asterion, bregma
what does the galea aponeurotica connect
frontalis and the occipitalis muscles
what is the pituitary gland located inside of
cella turcica
what does temporal fascia attach to
superior temporal line
