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