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    The platysma muscle is a superficial muscle of the human neck that overlaps the sternocleidomastoid. It covers the anterior surface of the neck superficially...
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    facilitate chewing of plant matter. The most obvious muscle of mastication is the masseter muscle, since it is the most superficial and one of the strongest...
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    Muscles Facial muscles Occipitofrontalis muscle Platysma Stylohyoid muscle Posterior belly of digastric muscle Stapedius muscle Auricular muscles Facial...
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    This is a table of skeletal muscles of the human anatomy, with muscle counts and other information. Skeletal muscle maps Anterior view Posterior view...
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    muscle Mentalis The platysma is supplied by the facial nerve. Although it is mostly in the neck and can be grouped with the neck muscles by location, it can...
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  • Thumbnail for Depressor anguli oris muscle
    origin, it is continuous with the platysma muscle, and at its insertion with the orbicularis oris muscle and risorius muscle. Some of its fibers are directly...
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    posteriorly by the trapezius, and anteriorly by the platysma muscle. The anterior and middle scalene muscles can be involved in certain forms of thoracic outlet...
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    superficial fascia, the platysma muscle, the deep cervical fascia, the sternocleidomastoid muscle, and the scalenus anterior muscle. On the right side of...
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    temporalis muscle, also known as the temporal muscle, is one of the muscles of mastication (chewing). It is a broad, fan-shaped convergent muscle on each...
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  • Thumbnail for Depressor labii inferioris muscle
    the orbicularis oris muscle around 2 cm wide. At its origin, depressor labii is continuous with the fibers of the platysma muscle. Some yellow fat is intermingled...
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  • Thumbnail for Submental space
    It is a potential space located between the mylohyoid muscle superiorly, the platysma muscle inferiorly, under the chin in the midline. The space coincides...
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    Risorius (redirect from Risorius muscle)
    masseteric fascia, the fascia enveloping the pars modiolaris of the platysma muscle, fascia overlying the mastoid part of temporal bone, and/or the zygomatic...
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  • Thumbnail for Cervical branch of the facial nerve
    the neck. It is a branch of the facial nerve (VII). It supplies the platysma muscle, among other functions. The cervical branch of the facial nerve is...
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    published a significant update to FACS in 2002. Movements of individual facial muscles are encoded by the FACS from slight different instant changes in facial...
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    side. The buccal space is superficial to the buccinator muscle and deep to the platysma muscle and the skin. The buccal space is part of the subcutaneous...
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    sensitivity, muddled speech, or uncontrollable contraction of the platysma muscle. Some Meige's patients also have "laryngeal dystonia" (spasms of the...
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    the integument, superficial fascia, the platysma muscle, deep cervical fascia, the sternocleidomastoid muscle, the sternohyoid, sternothyroid, and the...
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    the platysma muscle and the deep cervical fascia.[citation needed] Near the clavicle, the supraclavicular nerves perforate the fascia and the platysma muscle...
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    digastric muscle. The roof is formed by: Integument, Superficial fascia, Platysma, Deep fascia. The floor is formed by (parts of) the: Thyrohyoid membrane...
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    each submandibular space are: the mylohyoid muscle superiorly, the skin, superficial fascia, platysma muscle and superficial layer of the deep cervical...
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  • zygomatic arch) and galea.[citation needed] It becomes continuous with the platysma muscle inferiorly (inferior to the inferior border of the mandible), and indistinct...
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    being covered by the integument, platysma, and fascia; it then passes beneath the digastric and stylohyoid muscles and part of the submandibular gland...
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    visible and has a pale, pink color. The two main integumental muscles of a cat are the platysma and the cutaneous maximus. The cutaneous maximus covers the...
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    the deep anatomical structures, notably the platysma muscle, cheek fat and the orbicularis oculi muscle. These lead up to three landmarks namely, an...
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  • striated muscle deep to the panniculus adiposus. In humans, the platysma muscle of the neck, palmaris brevis in the hand, and the dartos muscle in the scrotum...
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  • oculi, depressor anguli oris (DAO), mentalis, platysma and the contralateral depressor labii inferioris muscles. Due to the short span of Botox effects though...
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    Frown (section Muscles used)
    not take into account the energy consumed by each muscle or the individual variability in facial muscles. While humans share facial musculature to express...
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  • Thumbnail for Marginal mandibular branch of the facial nerve
    passes anterior-ward deep to the platysma and depressor anguli oris muscles. It provides motor innervation to muscles of the lower lip and chin:[citation...
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    cutaneous nerves of cervical plexus and the external jugular vein and platysma muscle. A chain of lymph glands is also found running along the posterior...
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    small muscles in the head associated with the occipital region and the post-auricular muscle complex are often variable in their frequency. The platysma, a...
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