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Head, Neck, and Face Kinesiology Flash Cards


Directions

• The first slide asks a question.

• The second slide answers the question.

• Use these slides like flash cards to test your core knowledge.


Question

• Where is the frontalis muscle?


Answer

The forehead


Question

• Which bone is situated posterior to the two parietal bones to make up the back of the skull?


Answer

• The occipital bone


Question

• What is the action of the frontalis muscle?


Answer • The frontalis muscle raises the eyebrows and wrinkles

the forehead.

• The frontalis muscle works with the occipitalis muscle. The two are connected via the sheet tendon that covers the top of the cranium.

• These muscles working together make a unit called the epicranius. The tendon that attaches these muscles together has two names: 1) the epicranial aponeurosis and 2) the galea aponeurotica.


Question

• What is the action of the occipitalis muscle?


Answer

• The occipitalis muscle assists the frontalis muscle in raising the eyebrows.


Question

• Which bone is commonly referred to as the jaw bone?


Answer

• The mandible


Question

• What is the action of the corrugator supercilii muscle?


Answer

• The corrugator supercilii muscle brings the eyebrows together, making wrinkles between them.


Question

• Which bones articulate to form the temporomandibular joint?


Answer

• The mandibular condyle (mandible) articulates with the mandibular fossa of the temporal bone.


Question

• What type of joint is the temporomandibular joint?


Answer

• Combination of a plane and hinge joint


Question

• What types of movements are available at the temporomandibular joint?


Answer

• Depression and elevation (hinge joint)

• Protraction and retraction (gliding joint)


Question

• Which muscles open (depress) the jaw?


Answer

• Primary – External pterygoid– Anterior head of the digastric

• Secondary – Muscles attached to the hyoid bone

• Suprahyoid, digastric, stylohyoid, mylohyoid, geniohyoid, infrahyoid, sternohyoid, thyrohyoid, omohyoid


Question

• Which muscles close (elevate) the jaw?


Answer

• Primary – Masseter– Temporalis

• Secondary – Internal pterygoid


Question

• What is the origin and insertion of the sternocleidomastoid muscle?


Answer

• Origin – Superior margin of the sternum and the

medial aspect of the clavicle

• Insertion – Mastoid process of the temporal bone


Question

• What are the general actions of the sternocleidomastoid muscle?


Answer

• Bilaterally – Flexes the neck – Draws the head anteriorly – Elevates the chin

• Unilaterally – Rotates the head to the opposite side – Laterally flexes the neck


Question

• What is the origin and insertion of the scalene muscles?


Answer

• Origin – Transverse process of the cervical vertebrae

• Insertion – Superior surface of the first two ribs


Question

• What is the origin and insertion of the levator scapulae?


Answer

• Origin – Transverse processes of C1–C4

• Insertion – Superior part of the medial border of the

scapula


Question

• What actions does the trapezius perform at the neck and head?


Answer

• Extends the head and neck


Question

• What actions does levator scapulae perform at the neck?


Answer

• Unilaterally – Laterally flexes the neck to the same side – Rotates the neck to the same side

• Bilaterally – Extends the neck


Question

• What muscle presses the cheeks against the teeth? (Hint: this same muscle is used in holding the cheeks in when playing a trumpet.)


Answer

The buccinator


Question

• What is the muscle that bulges at the temples when clenching the teeth?


Answer

The temporalis


Question

• The joint between the first cervical vertebra and the second cervical vertebra is called ______.


Answer

• The atlantoaxial joint – The first cervical vertebrae is called the atlas– The second cervical vertebrae is called the

axis


Question

• What type of joint is the atlantoaxial joint?


Answer

Pivot


Question

• Which two bones form the atlantooccipital joint?


Answer

• The superior facets of the first cervical vertebra (atlas) articulate with the occipital condyles of the occipital bone.


Question

• Which muscle bulges at the cheeks when clenching the teeth?


Answer

The masseter


Question

• What is the round muscle that surrounds the mouth?


Answer

Orbicularis oris


Question

• What is the round muscle that surrounds each eye?


Answer

The orbicularis occuli

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