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What are the six muscles of facial expression?

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Zygomaticus major, orbicularis oris, orbicularis oculi, depressor anguli oris, frontalis, and buccinator

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What is the smile muscle?

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Zygomaticus major

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What two muscles are sphincter/circular muscles?

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Orbicularis oculi and oris

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What is the frowning muscle?

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Depressor anguli oris

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What muscle closes the eyelids and attaches to the skin around the eyes and within the skin of face?

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Orbicularis oculi

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What muscle closes the lips and attaches to the skin around the mouth and within the skin of the face?

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Orbicularis oris

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What are the three muscles of mastification?

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Temporalis, masseter, and pterygoids

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What muscle raises the eyebrow and attaches to the skin of the forehead and within the skin of the face?

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Frontalis

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What muscle elevates the angle of the mouth and and attaches at the angle of mouth and anterior zygomatic bone?

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Zygomaticus major

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What muscle tightens the cheeks and holds food for the teeth while chewing with attachments of the mandible/maxilla and within skin of face?

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Buccinator

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What muscle depresses the angle of the mouth and attaches to the angle of mouth and mandible?

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Depressor anguli oris

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What muscle elevates and retracts the mandible with attachments at the lateral cranium and coronoid process of mandible?

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Temporalis

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What muscle elevates and protracts the mandible and functions to side to side grinding with the sphenoid and mandible as attachments?

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Pterygoids

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What muscle elevates the mandible and has the mandible and zygomatic arch as attachments?

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Masseter

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What are the four muscles of the neck and tongue?

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Genioglossus, suprahyoid, infrahyoid, and sternocleidomastoid

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What two muscles are deep to the masseter?

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Pterygoids

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What eye muscle depresses and adducts the eye and attaches to the eye and posterior orbit?

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Inferior rectus

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What eye muscle abducts the eye and attaches to the eye and posterior orbit?

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Lateral rectus

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What eye muscle depresses and abducts the eye and attaches to the eye and posterior orbit?

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Superior oblique

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What eye muscle elevates and adducts the eye and attaches to the eye and posterior orbit?

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Superior rectus

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What eye muscle adducts the eye and attaches to the eye and posterior orbit?

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Medial rectus

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What eye muscle elevates and adducts the eye and attaches to the eye and medial orbit?

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Inferior oblique

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What muscle elevates the hyoid with the hyoid, mandible, and temporal bone as attachments?

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Suprahyoid muscles

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What muscle depresses the hyoid with the hyoid and sternum as attachments?

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What are the three muscles of respiration?
Diaphragm, external intercostals, and internal intercostals
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What muscle is deep to the sternocleidomastoid?
Infrahyoid muscles
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What muscle attaches to the mastoid process and clavicle and sternum?
Sternocleidomastoid
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What muscle protracts the tongue with the mandible and posterior part of the tongue as attachments?
Genioglossus
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The what of the sternocleidomastoid flexes the neck?
Bilateral
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The what of the sternocleidomastoid turns the head up and opposite side?
Unilateral
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What muscle's fibers run inferomedially between the ribs?
External intercostals
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What muscle deals with forced expiration and attaches to the ribs?
Internal intercostals
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What muscle deals with respiration with the inside of the body wall and ribs and central tendon as attachments?
Diaphragm
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What muscle's fibers run superomedially between the ribs?
Internal intercostals
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What group of muscles attaches to the pelvis and ribs, vertebrae, and cranium?
Erector spinae
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What muscle deals with inspiration and attaches to the ribs?
External intercostals
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The what head of the erector spinae muscles laterally flexes the trunk, neck, and head?
Unilateral head
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What are the three intrinsic back muscles, also known as the erector spinae muscles?
Spinalis, longissmus, and iliocostalis
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What are the four muscles of the abdominal wall?
Rectus abdominis, external oblique, internal oblique, and transversus abdominis
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What muscle flexes the trunk with pubis and ribs and xiphoid process as attachments?
Rectus abdominis
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What is the midline tendon of the rectus abdominis?
Linea alba
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The what head of the erector spinae muscles extends the trunk, neck, and head?
Bilateral head
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What two muscles flex and rotate the trunk with the lower ribs and pelvis and linea alba as attachments?
External and internal oblique
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What muscle compresses abdominal contents with the posterior and anterior body walls as attachments?
Transversus abdominis
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The fibers of what abdominal wall muscle run superior/inferior?
Rectus abdominis
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The fibers of what abdominal wall muscles run obliquely?
External and internal obliques
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What muscle supports pelvis organs with coccyx and ischium and pubis as attachments?
Levator ani
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The fibers of what abdominal wall muscle run horizontally?
Transversus abdominis
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What is a protrusion of the abdominal viscera through a weakened part in the abdominal wall?
Hernia
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What are the two most common places for a hernia to occur?
Femur and inguinal
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Where does an inguinal hernia occur, where the spermatic cord travels?
Inguinal canal
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What are the two muscles of the pelvis?
Levator ani and coccygeus
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What muscle supports pelvis organs with the sacrum, coccyx, and ischium as attachments?
Coccygeus

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