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13 Cards in this Set
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orbicularis oris |
closes and puckers lips, aids chewing and speaking |
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buccinator |
compresses cheecks against teeth retracts angle of mouth |
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mentalis |
raises and wrinkles skin of chin and pushes up lower lip |
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zygomatic major |
draws angles of mouth upward and backward as in laughing. |
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mylohyoid |
forms floor of mouth, elevates tongue, and depresses jaw |
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digastric |
demarcates superior portion of anterior cervical triangle forming a submandibular triangle on each side of neck |
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stylohyoid |
assists in swallowing by raising hyoid bone |
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geniohyoid |
draws tongue and hyoid bone forward |
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genioglossus |
depresses and protrudes tongue |
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hyoglossus |
retracts and pulls down side of tongue |
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styloglossus |
retracts tongue |
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palatoglossus |
elevates base of tongue, arching tongue against soft palate depressed soft palate toward tongue |
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palatopharyngeal |
forms posterior pillar of fauces serves to narrow fauces and helps to shut off nasopharynx |
