muscles of mastication
The muscles of mastication can be divided into primary and secondary groups according to whether they connect the mandible directly to the skull or if they attach to other structures in the neck, e.g. hyoid, thyroid cartilage.
Primary
Secondary
- suprahyoid muscles
- digastric muscle
- mylohyoid muscle (oral diaphragm)
- geniohyoid muscle
- buccinator muscle is sometimes also classed as a muscle of mastication
Actions
- close
- temporalis muscle
- masseter muscle
- medial pterygoid muscle
- open
- lateral pterygoid muscle
- anterior translation
- masseter muscle (posterior fibers)
- medial pterygoid muscle
- lateral pterygoid muscle
- posterior translation
- temporalis muscle (posterior fibers)
Siehe auch:
- lateral pterygoid muscle
- temporalis muscle
- Musculus digastricus
- Musculus masseter
- Musculus pterygoideus medialis
- tumours of the masticator space
und weiter:
Assoziationen und Differentialdiagnosen zu muscles of mastication:
