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Facial Muscles
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Anatomy
Undergraduate 1
10/28/2015

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Frontalis

raises eyebrows; wrinkles forehead

O: Aponeruroses

I: Skin of Eyebrows

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Buccinator

Compresses sheek; as in whistling and sucking

O: Maxilla & Mandible

I: Orbicularis Oculi

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Orbicularis Oculi

closes eye; blinking muscle

O: Frontalis & Maxilla

I: Tissue of eyelid

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Orbicularis Oris

closes mouth, kissing muscle

O: Skin & muslce of mouth

I: Skin & muscle of mouth

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Zygomaticus

raises lateral corner of mouth upward; smiling muscle

O: Zygomatic

I: Mandible & skin and muscle of mouth

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Masseter

closes jaw; chewing muscle

O: Zygomatic arch

I: Angle of mandible

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Glueeus Macimus

powerful thigh extensor

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Pectineus

adducts, flexes, and medially rotates thigh

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Adductor Longus

Adducts, medially rotates and flexes thigh

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Adductor Magnus

Adducts, medially rotates and flexes thigh

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Gracilis

adducts, medially rotates & flexes thigh

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Rectus Femoris

extends knee and flexes thigh at hip

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Vastus Lateralis

extends & stabilizes knee

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Vastus medialis

extends knee; stabilizes patella

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Vastus Intermedius

extends knee (Deep)
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Biceps Femoris

Hamstring muscle

extends thigh; flexes knee

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Semitendinosus 

Hamstring muscle

extends thigh flexes knees

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Semimembranousus 

hamstring muscle

Extends thigh: Flexes knee

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Sartorius

flexes, abducts, and laterally rotates thigh; flexes knee

"tailor's muscle"

longest muscle

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Tibialis Anterior

prime mover of dorsiflexion (Shin splints

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Extensor digitorum longus

prime mover of toe extenstion; synergist of dorsiflexion

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Gastrocnemius

prime mover of plantar flexion

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Soleus

synergist of platar flexion

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