Facial Expression
This muscle elevates the eyebrows
What is occipitofrontalis?
These are the 4 muscles of mastication
What are the temporalis, masseter, medial and lateral pterygoids?
These are the instrinsic muscles of the tongue.
What are the superior, inferior longitudinal, transverse and vertical muscles?
This is the function of the pharyngeal constrictors.
What is the constriction of the pharyngeal wall during swallowing?
This muscle elevates the soft palate during swallowing and yawning
What is the levator veli palatini?
This muscle allows you to wink
What is orbicularis oculi?
This muscle means "wing" in Greek
This nerve innervates the extrinsic muscles of the tongue
What is CN XII and CN X?
CN IX innervates this muscle
What is the stylopharyngeus?
This is the muscle of the uvula
What is the musculus uvulae?
This muscle allows you to kiss
what is orbicularis oris?
These two muscles retrude the chin
What are the temporalis and masseter?
This nerve innervates the intrinsic tongue muscles
what is the hypoglossal nerve CN XII?
The pharyngeal raphe is the origin of this muscle group.
This muscle elevates the posterior part of the tongue and draws the soft palate onto the tongue
What is the palatoglossus muscle?
This nerve innervates facial expressions
What is CN VII?
This nerve innervates the medial pterygoid
What is CN V3?
These muscles act simultaneously to protrude the tongue.
What are the transverse and vertical tongue muscles?
This muscle functions to serve as the superior esophageal sphincter.
What is the cricopharyngeus?
This nerve innervates the tensor veli palatini.
What is CN V3?
This muscle keeps food from falling out of your mouth
What is the cheek muscle, buccinator?
These muscles depress the mandible
What are the suprahyoid muscles?
These two nerves are motor for the tongue
what are CN X and XII?
What are the stylo, salpingo and palatopharyngeus?
CN X innervates these muscles
What are the palatoglossus, palatopharyngeus and musculus uvulae?