Muscles of the face, neck, and torso

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

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

This muscle pulls the corner of mouth laterally; presses the cheek against the teeth.

• Masseter

• Buccinator

• Zygomaticus Major

• Zygomaticus Minor

This muscle (B) allows you to close your eyes, squint, blink, and wink.

• Orbicularis oris

• Orbicularis oculi

• Zygomaticus

• Platysma

These paired straplike muscles (A) are the most superficial muscles of the abdomen. They flex the vertebral column and compress the abdomen during defecation, childbirth, and forced breathing.

• External oblique

• Internal oblique

• Rectus abdominis

• Transversus abdominis

These diamond-shaped muscles (A) extend the head, elevate, depress, adduct, and stabilize the scapula.

• Deltoid

• Triceps brachii

• Trapezius

• Latissimus dorsi

The two large, flat muscles (D) that cover the lower back, extend and adduct the humerus.

• Deltoid

• Triceps brachii

• Trapezius

• Latissimus dorsi