Facial Muscles

Which muscle lies across the forehead and raises the eyebrows?

• mentalis

• Frontalis

• sterno cleido mastoid

• masseter

The name given to the two small triangular muscles that sit between the eyebrows and draw them down and together?

• zygomaticus

• platysma

• mentalis

• corrugator

The muscle that covers the sides of the neck & chin, it draws the mouth's corners downwards.

• platysma

• sterno cleido mastoid

• masseter

• corrugator

The muscle that covers the front of the chin and raises the lower lip causing the chin to wrinkle.

• corrugator

• zygomaticus

• mentalis

• platysma

The circular muscle that surrounds the eyes and closes the lid.

• orbicularis oculi

• orbicularis oris

• orbicularis norris

• orbicularis coris

The muscle that extends diagonally from the cheek to the corners of the mouth and causes grinning.

• mentalis

• risorius

• zygomaticus

• nisorius

The muscle that sits inside the cheeks between the upper and lower jaw.

• mentalis

• corrugator

• buccinator

• orbicularis oris

The muscle that extends diagonally across the cheek, causes smiling and laughing.

• zygomaticus

• buccinator

• corrugator

• mentalis

The muscle that covers the front of nose and surrounds the nostrils.

• mentalis

• zygomaticus

• nasalis

• corrugator

The muscle that sits between the eyebrows at the top of the nose.

• platysma

• fontalis

• mentalis

• procerus