Muscles of Facial Expression
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8 terms
Latin | English |
|---|---|
| Orbicularis Oris |  closes and protrudes lips |
| Orbicularis Oculi | closes eyelids |
| Zygomaticus (major & minor) | raise angle of mouth; smile |
| Risorius | draws angle of mouth laterally as in tenseness |
| Buccinator | compress cheek; blowing and sucking |
| Platysma | depress mandible; draws lip downward as in pouting; tightens and wrinkles skin of neck |
| Frontalis | raises eyebrows, wrinkles forehead, draws scalp foreward |
| Occipitalis | draws scalp backward |
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