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This body part contracts to move another part of the body.
What is a muscle?
This pair of muscles helps advance, retract, and move the jaw side to side.
What are the medial and lateral pterygoids?
This word means "against each other".
What is antagonistically?
This part of the roof is fleshy, moveable, and made of muscle.
What is the velum or soft palate?
Name two of the ways the tongue can move.
What are curling, arching, cupping, spreading, bracing, bunching
When we are skilled at all the actions necessary to create sounds, we have this.
What is muscle memory?
These muscles help us make chipmunk and fish faces.
What are the buccinators?
True or false: We can see the entire tongue.
These two concentric circles of muscle around the lips.
What are the orbicularis oris?
Name two of the ways the velum moves.
What are lifts, spreads, lowers?
The very serious art of making funny faces.
What is gurning?
Part of the body that filters sound by creating airway shapes above the larynx.
What is the vocal tract?
These are the visible parts of the tongue.
What are the tip, blade, and dorsum?
Name two of the ways that the lips can be shaped.
What are trumpeting/protruding, pursing/curling, and full lip rounding?
Knowledge of your body in space.
What is proprioception?
Most powerful muscle in the human body with regard to pounds of force.
What is the masseter?
Two main types of articulators.
What are moveable and fixed?
The not visible part of the tongue.
What is the root?
Name one of the muscles involved in smiling.
What are the zygomaticus or risorius (creepy smile)?
Awareness of your body from the inside.
what is interoception?
The muscle near your temples that helps to move your jaw.
The tongue is this type of muscle with constant volume.
What is a muscular hydrostat?
The platform that positions the tongue.
What is the jaw?
True or false. The blade is the front of the body of the tongue.
What is false?
The front part of the roof of the mouth, just behind the upper teeth.
What is the alveolar ridge?