Anatomy.txt

Facial expression: orbicularis oculi

close eye (humans)
Facial expression: orbicularis oris

closes/purses lips (humans)
Facial expression: buccinator
- compress cheek
- by lips
Facial expression: Platysma

Skin surrounding cheek

Depress mandible, lower lip, and tense neck skin
Mastication: masseter
- Cheek
- closes lower jaw
- on mandible
Mastication: Temporalis
- closes lower jaw
- muscle on temporal part of skull
Neck:Digastric
- 2 muscles under chin
- elevate hyoid
- open mouth
Neck: mylohyoid
- Between digastric
- elevate hyoid
- elevate floor of mouth
Neck: sternohyoid
- Muscle in the middle of the neck-- looks like on wind pipe
- depresses hyoid
Neck: in cats:Sternomastoid and cleidomastoid
- Equivalent to sternocleidomastoid in humans
- flex neck
- rotate head
- sternomastoid is in between cleidomastoid and sternohyoid
- cleidomastoid is the most superficial
Neck: Splenius group
- Triangle looking fan on back of neck
- extend neck
- rotate head
Trunk Muscles: Erector Spinae
- 1) humans- Iliocostalis group
- 2) Longissimus group -long down the back
- 3)spinalis group
- all extend vertebral column

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Anatomy.txt

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Muscle anatomy flash cards

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2009-10-24T04:38:53Z

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