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One of the 12 muscles of the mouth. A muscular fibrous band, it arises in the fascia over the masseter and inserts into the skin at the corner of the mouth. It acts to retract the angle of the mouth, ...

mylohyoid muscle

Anatomy; Human body

A muscle with origin from the mylohyoid line of the mandible, with insertion into the upper border of the hyoid bone and the raphe separating the muscle from its fellow, with nerve supply from the ...

digastric muscle

Anatomy; Human body

A muscle with two fleshy bellies separated by a fibrous insertion. A muscle consisting of two bellies united by a central tendon connected to the body of the hyoid bone, with origin from the ...

stylohyoid muscle

Anatomy; Human body

A muscle with origin from the styloid process of the temporal bone, with insertion into the hyoid bone by two slips on either side of the intermediate tendon of the digastric muscle, with nerve ...

platysma muscle

Anatomy; Human body

The platysma muscle is a broad sheet of muscle arising from the pectoral (chest) and deltoid (shoulder) muscles and rises over the collarbone (clavicle), proceeding upward in a slanting manner along ...

levator scapulae muscle

Anatomy; Human body

The levator scapulae muscle resides at that back and side of the neck. Levator means to lift in Latin, so as the name implies, its goal is to lift the scapula. It comes up by tendinous slips from the ...

sternocleidomastoid muscle

Anatomy; Human body

The sternal head of the sternocleidomastoid muscle (also known as the sternocleidomastoideus), along with the clavicular head, assist one another to stretch the cervical portion of the spinal column ...