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Axial Muscles and Their Actions

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  • Frontalis

    Raises eyebrows and wrinkles the forehead.

  • Orbicularis oculi

    Closes the eyelid during squinting and blinking.

  • Orbicularis oris

    Closes and protrudes the lips for speaking, kissing, and whistling.

  • Platysma

    Tenses the skin of the neck.

  • Zygomaticus minor

    Raises the upper lip.

  • Zygomaticus major

    Raises the lateral corner of the mouth for smiling.

  • Buccinator

    Compresses the cheek while whistling, blowing, or chewing.

  • Masseter

    Elevates the mandible to close the jaw and protrudes the mandible.

  • Temporalis

    Elevates the mandible to close the jaw and retracts the mandible.

  • Sternocleidomastoid

    Flexes and laterally flexes the neck; rotates head so face turns superiorly and to the opposite side.

  • Suprahyoid muscles

    Elevate the hyoid bone during swallowing and speaking.

  • Infrahyoid muscles

    Depress the hyoid bone and elevate the larynx.

  • Scalenes

    Laterally flex the neck and elevate ribs 1 and 2.

  • Diaphragm

    Increases thoracic cavity volume by pulling the central tendon inferiorly during inspiration.

  • External intercostals

    Elevate the ribs during normal inspiration.

  • Internal intercostals

    Depress the ribs during forced expiration.

  • Rectus abdominis

    Flexes the vertebral column, stabilizes pelvis during walking, and increases intraabdominal pressure during forced expiration.

  • External oblique

    Rotates and laterally flexes the trunk and increases intraabdominal pressure during forced expiration.

  • Internal oblique

    Same actions as external oblique: rotation, lateral flexion of trunk, and increasing intraabdominal pressure.

  • Transversus abdominis

    Increases intraabdominal pressure during forced expiration.

  • Splenius

    Extends the head and neck, and performs lateral flexion and rotation of head and neck.

  • Erector spinae

    Extends vertebral column and head, laterally flexes them, and maintains normal vertebral curvature.

  • Transversospinalis

    Extends and rotates the vertebral column and stabilizes it.