- Platysma
- Origin: fascia over deltoid and pectoralis major muscles.
- Insertion: mandible
- Action: depresses mandible
- Depressor labii inferioris
- Origin: mandible
- Insertion: skin of lower lip
- Action: depresses lower lip
- Orbicularis oris
- Origin: muscle fibers surrounding opening of mouth
- Insertion: skin at corner of mouth
- Action: like when kissing, closes and protrudes lips
- Corrugator supercilli
- Origin: medial end of superciliary arch of frontal bone.
- Insertion: skin of eyebrow
- Action: enables frowning by drawing eyebrow inferiorly and wrinkles skin of forehead vertically
- Orbicularis oculi
- Origin: medial wall of orbit
- Insertion: circular path around the orbit
- Action: closes the eye
- Occipitofrontalis
- Origin: epicranial aponeurosis
- Insertion: skin of the eyebrow
- Action: Produces horizontal wrinkles on the forehead by lifting the eyebrow and upper eyelids
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Carl Dominique Mariano
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