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Intrinsic m of tongue

100

Muscle fibers insert into front edges of tongue and surface of tongue tip; pull tip upward, can shorten tongue

Superior longitudinal

200

Fibers start from hyoid bone and insert at lower surface of tongue; shortens tongue, pulls tongue tip downward

inferior longitudinal

300

Contraction of this muscle narrows and elongates tongue. Fibers run in the median part of the tongue.

Transverse

400

Contraction of this muscle flattens the tongue.

Vertical

500

This term means that both the origin and insertion of the muscle lie within the tongue itself.

Intrinsic

Extrinsic m of tongue

100

This muscle pulls tongue tip forward and can pull front of tongue backward. This is largest muscle of the tongue.

Genioglossus

200

Lowers the tongue and draws it backward. This muscle starts at body of hyoid bone.

hyoglossus

300

This muscle comes off the broad sheet of tissue at the surface of the palate. It pulls the tongue up and back and pulls root of tongue inward.

Palatoglossus

400

This muscle comes off the styloid process. It helps move body of tongue up and back and also shortens tongue.

Styloglossus

500

This is a bone several extrinsic muscles of tongue attach to.

Hyoid bone.

Muscles of mandible

100

This muscle raises the mandible, moves it backward and also side to side.

Masseter

200

This muscle raises the mandible, also moves it backward and side to side.

Temporalis

300

This muscle raises the mandible and also moves it side to side.

internal pterygoid

400

This muscle lowers the mandible and moves it forward and also side to side.

external pterygoid

500

One of three muscles that lower the mandible as their only action.

Digastric, anterior belly, or, mylohyoid, or geniohyoid

Muscles of lips

100

A muscle of facial expression that rings the lips.

orbicularis oris

200

A muscle of facial expression that raises the upper lip

Levator labii superioris

300

A muscle of facial expression that can make a pout like expression.

mentalis

400

A muscle of facial expression located in the cheek area

Buccinator

500

A muscle of facial expression that pulls the lower lip downward

depressor labii inferioris

Cranium and facial bones

100

This bone forms the back wall of the nasal cavities

Sphenoid

200

This is a bone that projects off of the temporal bone

Styloid process

300

This is a facial bone that is not paired

Ethmoid or sphenoid

400

A bone that is the boundary between the oropharynx and the laryngopharynx

hyoid bone

500

The two nasal cavities are separated from each other with this structure made up of cartilage and bone.

septum