The prominent ridges running laterally on the roof of the mouth.
What are the rugae?
100
The pharynx can be divided into ____ cavities.
What is three?
100
This structure is the most versatile of the articulators.
What is the tongue?
100
The ____ pulls the lower lip out.
What is the mentalis?
100
Elevates the tongue tip.
What are the superior longitudinal muscles?
200
Divides the hard palate into equal halves.
What is the median raphe?
200
The _____ is immediately behind the faucial pillars.
What is the oropharynx?
200
The superior surface of the tongue is referred to as the _____.
What is the dorsum
200
This muscles pulls the corner of the mouth up and back.
What is the zygomatic major?
200
These muscles have one point of attachment within the tongue and one point external to the tongue.
What are the extrinsic muscles of the tongue?
300
The masses of lymphoid tissue between the faucial pillars.
What are the palatine tonsils?
300
The _____ is the anterior boundary of the laryngopharynx.
What is the epiglottis?
300
The anterior-most point of the tongue is the _____
What is the tip?
300
These muscles help keep food on the molars. (2 muscles)
What are the buccinator and risorius?
300
These muscles with depress the tongue tip.
What are the inferior longitudinal muscles?
400
The roof of the mouth.
What is the hard palate?
400
The orifice of the _________ ______ is located in the Nasopharynx.
What is the Eustachian tube?
400
This structure divides the tongue longitudinally.
What is the median fibrous septum?
400
These muscles elevate the upper lip. (3 muscles)
What are the levator labii superioris, zygomatic minor, levator labii alaeque nasi superioris
400
This muscle narrows the tongue.
What is Transverse intrinsic muscle?
500
Contraction of this muscle elevates the mandible. Most superficial muscles of mastication. When the teeth are clenched the prominent muscular belly is clearly visible.
What is the masseter?
500
This muscle underlies the anterior faucial pillars?
What is the palatoglossus muscle?
500
Most muscles of the tongue are innervated by this cranial nerve.
What is the CN XII - hypoglossal nerve
500
The muscles of the face are innervated by the _____
What is CN VII - facial nerve
500
These muscles elevate the posterior tongue. (2 muscles)
What are the palatoglossus and the transverse intrinsic?