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20 Cards in this Set
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Frontalis
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Specific Category: Muscles of facial expression
Action: wrinkles forehead; elevates eyebrow |
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Corrugator supercilii
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Specific Category: Muscle of facial expression
Action: draws eyebrow to midline |
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Orbicularis oculi
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Specific Category: Muscles of facial expression
Action: closes eye |
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Orbicularis oris
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Specific Category: Muscles of facial expression
Action: closes mouth |
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Buccinator
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Specific Category: Muscles of facial expression
Action: compresses cheek |
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Zygomaticus
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Specific Category: Muscles of facial expression
Action: elevates corner of mouth |
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Risorius
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Specific Category: Muscles of facial expression
Action: draws corner of mouth laterally |
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Mentalis
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Specific Category: Muscles of facial expression
Action: protrudes lower lip |
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Platysma
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Specific Category: Muscles of facial expression
Action: depresses mandible and lower lip |
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Masseter
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Specific Category: Muscles of mastication
Action: elevates mandible |
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Temporalis
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Specific Category: Muscles of mastication
Action: elevates mandible |
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Sternocleidomastoid
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Specific Category: Posterior mucles of the neck
Action: rotates head, flexes neck |
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Trapezius
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Specific category: Posterior muscles of the neck
Action: moves shoulder: adducts and elevates |
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Digastric
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Specific category: suprahyoid muscles
Action: opens mouth, elevates hyoid |
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Mylohyoid
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Specific category: suprahyoid muscles
Action: elevates hyoid and floor of mouth |
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Geniohyoid
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Specific category: suprahyoid muscles
Action: elevates hyoid and protracts tongue |
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Stylohyoid
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Specific category: suprahyoid muscles
Action: elevates and retracts tongue |
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Sternohyoid
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Specific category: Infrahyoid muscles
Action: depresses hyoid |
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Sternothyroid
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Specific category: Infrahyoid muscles
Action: depresses thyroid cartilage |
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Thyrohyoid
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Specific category: Infrahyoid muscles
Action: depresses hyoid bone, elevates larynx |
