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Location: Part of the forehead.
Frontalis (Frontal Belly of Occipitofrontalis)


Location/muscle attatchment: A thin fan-shaped muscle located above the external ear
Auricularis superior


Shape and Location: A thin, circular, disk-shaped muscle surrounding the eye.
Orbicularis oculi


Location and Size: A little thin strip of muscle derived from its “cheek bone”.
Zygomaticus minor


Location and Size: A large, thin strip of muscle derived from its “cheek bone”.
Zygomaticus Major


Shape and Location: a circular, disk-shaped muscle found around the mouth.
Orbicularis oris


Action and Location: The muscle lowers a body part; Found at the lower corners of the mouth.
Depressor anguli oris

Action and Location: A muscle that wrinkles the eyebrow
Corrugator supercilii


Location: a LARGE fan-shaped muscle located by the sides of our skull.
Temporalis


Location: “cheek muscles” that aid in compressing the cheek to blow air.
Buccinator


Action: A Greek word that means - “chewer,” muscle
Masseter


Muscle Origin(s): Long strips of muscles that attach to the sternum (breastbone), and is inserted to an axial bone that does not attach itself to the skull.
Sternohyoid


Muscle Origin(s): Long strips of muscles that attach to the shoulders (scapula), and inserts to the one axial bone that do not attach itself to the skull.
Omohyoid


Location and Shape: A Greek word that means uneven, triangular muscles, which are the front-most muscle group.
Anterior scalene


Location and Shape: A Greek word that means uneven, triangular muscles, which this group of muscles are wedged between two other muscle groups
Middle Scalene


Location and Shape: A Greek word that means uneven, triangular muscles, which are the back-most muscle group
Posterior scalene


Action and Location: A Latin word that means to lift up , muscle is located to the shoulder blade bone.
Levator scapulae


Shape and Location: A greek word that means “bandage” strip shape, located on the insertion point on the skull (the mastoid process of the temporal and occipital bone)
Splenius capitis (Think of a strip of muscle connecting from the medial border of the back to where a cap (hat) would end behind the head.)


Location of (Origins/Insertions/muscle attachments): Muscle that attaches to the breast bone, clavicle and goes to the bony bump behind the ear
sternocleidomastoid


Shape: a left and right back muscle that has 4 sides each.
Trapazius


Shape and Size: A muscle that forms a diamond shape that is smaller of its muscle group.
Rhomboid minor


Shape and size: A muscle that forms a diamond shape that is larger of its muscle group
Rhomboid major


Location (Muscle Attachment): muscle that attaches from the uppermost and largest part of the pelvis) Inferior point of origin, to its insertion points vertically across the ribs
Iliocostalis.


Size: named after its size in length, one of the longest muscles of the back.
Longissimus


Size and Location: first word means broadest or widest muscle, located to the back.
Latissimus dorsi

Teres minor
Teres major
Supraspinatus
Infraspinatus
Deltoid
Pectoralis major
Pectoralis minor
Serratus anterior
External intercostals
Internal intercostals
Diaphragm
Transversus abdominis
Rectus abdominis
Internal oblique
External oblique