Muscle origin/insertion/action
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sunflowerIME on October 30, 2010
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Latin | English |
|---|---|
| Orbicularis oris Muscle |  Origin: Encircle of the mouthInsertion: Angle of the mouth Action: pressing together, tightening and thinning, rolling inward, thrusting outward |
| Depressor Labii Inferioris | Origin: Mandible Insertion: lower lip Action: Irony |
| Mentalis | Origin: mandible Insertion: chin Action: express doubt, raising chin, and protruding lower lip |
| Depressor Anguli Oris | Origin:Mandible Insertion: angle of the mouth Action: frowny |
| Plastyma | Origin: Clavicle and shoulder Insertion: angle of the mouth Action: Raising neck skin, grimacing |
| Buccinator | Origin: Maxilla, mandible, pterygomandibular raphe Insertion: Angle of the mouth Action: Chewing, suckling, expelling air |
| Levator anguli oris | Origin: Maxilla Insertion: angle of the mouth Action: Smile |
| Zygomaticus major | Origin: zygomatic bone Insertion: angle of the mouth Action: smile |
| Zygomaticus minor | Origin: zygomatic bone Insertion: upper lip Action:asisting smiling |
| Levator labii superioris | Origin: Maxilla Insertion: Upper lip Action: elevate the upper lip |
| Levator Labii superioris alaeque nasi | Origin: Maxilla Insertion: Ala of the nose and upper lip Action: Sneering expression |
| Orbicularis oculi | Origin: infraorbital rim, nasal process of frontal bone, and frontal process of maxilla Insertion: Skin tissue at lateral region of the eye Action: close the eyelid |
| Epicranial | Origin: epicranial aponeurosi Insertion: into the skin tissue of the eyebrown and root of the nose Action: raising eyebrown and scapl when a person showing surprise |
| Corrugator supercilii | Origin: on the frontal bone in the supra orbital region Insertion: skin tissue of the eyebrown Action: cause vertical wrinkle in the gabella and horizontal wrinkle of the nose |
| Masseter | Origin: Anterior 2/3, posterior third, medial of zygomatic arch Insertion: anle and ramus of mandible Action: Raising the lower jaw/ occur during closing of the jaw |
| Temporalis | Origin: Temporal fossa Insertion: Coronoid process of mandible Action: raising the lower jaw/ retrude the jaw |
| Medial pterygoid | Origin: pterygoid fossa of shpenoid bone Insertion: angle of mandible Action: Raising the lower jaw |
| Lateral pterygoid | Origin: greater wing, lateral pterygoid plate of sphenoid bone Insertion: pterygoid fovea of mandible Action: Lowering the lower jaw/ occur during opening of the jaw |
| Risorius | Origin: Fasia superficial to masseter muscle Insertion: angle of the mouth Action: stretching, retracting, widening to produce grinning or smiling |
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