- Name: Platysma
- Origin: Fascia over the clavicles, deltoid muscles, and pectoralis major muscles
- Insertion: Mandible
- Action: Depression of mandible with stretching of lower lips
- Name: Mentalis
- Origin: Mandible
- Insertion: Skin of lower lip
- Action: Raises and protrudes lower lips and chin
- Name: Orbicularis oris
- Origin: Midline of the mandible and maxilla
- Insertion: Tissues of the upper and lower lips
- Action: Compresses and protrudes the lips
- Name: Corrugator supercilii
- Origin: Medial end of superciliary arches
- Insertion: Skin of the eyebrow above the middle part of the supraorbital margin
- Action: Longitudinal movement of the eyebrow and wrinkles the forehead
- Name: Orbicularis oculi
- Origin: Frontal bone, maxilla, lacrimal bone
- Insertion: Lateral palpebral raphe and tarsal plates (eyelids)
- Action: Closes eyelids and compresses lacrimal sac
- Name: Occipitofrontalis
- Origin: Superior nuchal lines on the occipital bone
- Insertion: Epicranial aponeurosis
- Action: Wrinkles the forehead, draws the scalp backwards
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