Human A&P #25 - Muscles of the Head and Face

Hey, wanna make eye contact? These muscles around your eye help you bat your eyes; closes the eyelids and enables you to wink at the special person!

• Orbicularis Oris

• Orbicularis Oculi

• Corrugator

• Frontalis

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 pulls the scalp posteriorly; elevates the eyebrows

• Occipitalis

• Frontalis

• Corrugator

• Zygomaticus Minor

Muscle that elevates and draws the corner of the mouth laterally

• Zygomaticus Major

• Nasalis

• Buccinator

• Orbicularis Oris

Muscle that draws the corners of the mouth down; it aids in depression of the mandible.

• Mentalis

• Platysma

• Sternoclidomastoid

• Risorius

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

• Masseter

• Buccinator

• Zygomaticus Major

• Zygomaticus Minor

This muscle closes the mouth by raising your jawbone~ elevates the mandible (also used in chewing)

• Masseter
• Temporalis
• Auricular
• Buccinator

Muscle that elevates the lower lip and skin of chin~ wrinkle chin

• Nasalis
• Risorius
• Mentalis
• Sternoclidomastoid