10 questions
Hey, wanna make eye contact? These muscles around your eye help you bat your eyes; closes the eyelids and enables you to wink at the special person!
Orbicularis Oris
Orbicularis Oculi
Corrugator
Frontalis
Contraction of this muscle enables you to kiss! #smooches
Orbicularis Oris
Orbicularis Oculi
Corrugator
Occipitals
This muscle closes the mouth by raising your jawbone~ elevates the mandible (also used in chewing)
Buccinator
Zygomaticus Major
Zygomaticus Minor
Masseter
This large neck muscle helps rotate the head upward and side to side
Masseter
Buccinator
Platysma
Sternoclidomastoid
Muscle that elevates the eyebrows and wrinkles the forehead
Frontalis
Occipitals
Corrugator
Obicularis Oculi
Muscle that pulls the scalp posteriorly; elevates the eyebrows
Occipitalis
Frontalis
Corrugator
Zygomaticus Minor
This mouth muscle is one that is used for chewing~elevates the mandible; retracts the mandible (posterior fibers)* a powerful chewing muscle.
Clenching your teeth may lead to tension headaches.
Temporalis
Frontalis
Occipitals
Corrugator
Muscle that elevates and draws the corner of the mouth laterally
Zygomaticus Major
Nasalis
Buccinator
Orbicularis Oris
Muscle that draws the corners of the mouth down; it aids in depression of the mandible.
Mentalis
Platysma
Sternoclidomastoid
Risorius
This muscle pulls the corner of mouth laterally; presses the cheek against the teeth.
Masseter
Buccinator
Zygomaticus Major
Zygomaticus Minor