Muscle Flashcards
Muscle responsible for movement
Agonist
Muscle that oppose or reverse movement, also sometimes responsbile for prime movement
Antagonist
Reduce unnecessary energy
Synergist
Are specialized synergist that stabilizee the agonist
fixators
The stationary point of attachment
Origin
The moveable ponit of attahement
Insertion
Muscle that rasies eyebrows
Frontalis
Muscle of blinking and squnting
Obicularis Oculi
Muscle for smiling
Zygomaticus
Muscle for making the sad mouth
Depressor anguli oris
Muscle for depressing the mandible and sad mouth
Platysma
Muscle for flexion to resist head flooping back when lying down
Sternocleidomastiod
Muscle the closes jaw
Temporalis
Muscle that closes jaw and elevates the mandible
Masseter
Muscle that compresses the cheek
Buccinator
Muscle the closes and purses lips
Obicularis oris
Muscle that protracts jaw/ Grinding
Lateral Pterygoid
Msucle that elevates jaw/ grinding (synergist og temporalis and massester)
Medial pterygoid
Muscle that runs from the mandible (mylo) to the hyoid bone, forms the floo of mouth; elevates tounge while swallowing
Mylohyoid muscle
Muscle that elevates hyoid and depresses the mandible to open the motuh (two bellies)
Digastric
Muscle the runs from the styloid to the hyoid, evleates the hyoid during swallowing
stylohyoid
Runs from the sternum to the hyoid, depresses gyoid
Sternohyoid
Msucles that Depresses hyoid
Sternothyroid, omohyoid, and thyrohyoid