Lecture 7: Axial Musculature Flashcards
What is Axial Musculature associated with?
The Axial Skeleton and posture
What is included in the Axial Skeleton?
Skull Vertebral column and thoracic cage
What is the Appendicular Musculature associated with?
The appendicular skeleton (limbs and girdles)
What are the two main characteristics of Axial Musculature?
- Innervation by Cranial Nerves or Spinal Nerves
* Attachments on the axial skeleton, associated organs and or soft tissue
Where do Axial musculature attach to?
Axial skeleton, associated organs and/or soft tissue
What are the major functions of the Axial Musculature?
- Vision, hearing, mastication, facial expression and swallowing
- Upright posture and movement of the back
- Support of abdominal and pelvic viscera
- Respiration
- Urination, defecation, parturition
What are the four major groups of Axial Muscles?
- Head and neck
- Back
- Thorax and Abdomen
- Pelvis and perineum
What are the 6 groups of Head and Neck Musculature?
- Facial expression
- Extra-ocular muscles
- Muscle of mastication
- Tongue muscles
- Pharyngeal muscles
- Neck muscles
What kind of nerves are all the head and neck muscle innervated by?
Cranial nerves. All except the Neck muscles
Which muscles of the head and neck are not innervated by Cranial nerves?
The neck muscles which have a mix of both
What are some muscles of Facial Expression?
Procerus Orbicularis oculi Orbicularis oris Platysma Occipitofrontalis (frontal belly) Zygomaticus major Buccinator
What is the function of the Procerus?
- Moves nose
* Draws medial side of eyebrow inferiorly
What is the function of the Orbicularis Oculi?
Closes eyelids
What is the function of the Orbicularis oris?
•Purses lips; kissing
What is the function of the Platysma?
Tenses skin of neck
What is the function of the Occipitofrontalis (frontal belly)?
- Raises eyebrows
* Wrinkles forehead
What is the function of the Zygomaticus major?
- Elevates corner of the mouth
* Smiling
What is the function of the Buccinator?
Tenses cheeks; helps with chewing
What kind of nerves are the Extraocular muscles innervated by?
Cranial Nerves
What are the 7 Extraocular muscles?
1) Levator palpebrae superioris
2) Superior rectus
3) Inferior Rectus
4) Medial Rectus
5) Lateral Rectus
6) Inferior oblique
7) Superior oblique
What is the function of the Levator Palpebrae Superioris?
Elevates the eyelid
What is the function of the Superior Rectus?
Eye looks up
What is the function of the Inferior Rectus?
Eye looks down
What is the function of the Medial Rectus?
Eye looks medially
What is the function of the Lateral Rectus?
Eye looks laterally
What is the function of the Inferior Oblique?
Eye rolls up and laterally
What is the function of the Superior oblique?
Eye rolls down and laterally
What is different about the Superior Rectus and Inferior Rectus?
They contract slightly medially due to the differential axes of the orbit and the eyeball
What are the parts of the Temporomandibular Joint?
Mandibular Fossa - Temporal bone
Articular disc - Articular disc
Mandibular Condyle - Mandible
What is the function of the Articular disc in the Temporomandibular joint?
Is cartilage
Why is the TMJ known as an ellipsoid joint?
Because it allows modified movement of rotation and translation
What is it called when you open and close your mouth?
Depression of the Mandible
Elevation of the Mandible
What occurs in the Mandible during depression (mouth opening)?
Rotation of the condyle in the inferior compartment then translation of the condyle in the superior department
What are the 4 muscles of Mastication?
Temporalis
Masseter
Lateral Pterygoid
Medial Pterygoid
What are the connections of the Temporalis muscle?
Temporal bone to coronoid process to mandible
What are the connections of the Masseter muscle?
Zygomatic arch to lateral side of ramus to mandible
What are the functions of the Temporalis and Masseter muscle?
They assist with mastication by elevating the mandible when chewing on food
What bone is the Pterygoid plate on?
The sphenoid bone
Where does the Lateral Pterygoid connect to?
The lateral side of the Pterygoid to mandibular condyle
What are the functions of the Lateral Pterygoid?
- Depresses the mandible to open the mouth
* Can move the mandible side-to-side
What are the connections of the Medial Pterygoid?
Medial side of the pterygoid plate to the medial side of mandibular ramus
What is the function of the Medial Pterygoid?
- Elevate the mandible when chewing
* Closes the mouth