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The masseter, temporalis, and medial pterygoid.

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Temporalis and masseter muscles.

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Q: Which muscles elevate and retract the mandible?
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Muscles used in your body while eating?

The masseter and the temporalis elevate the mandible. The Pterygoid muscles do varies movements of the jaw. All together it allows us to chew various foods at differient consistencies.


The acts synergistically with the masseter to elevate the mandible?

The masseter IS the functional muscle which closes the mandible (jaw).


What muscles extend the head?

Trapezius - depends on actice region and stateof other muscles; may (1) elevate, retract, depress or rotate scapula upward, (2) elevate clavicle, or (3) extend neck


Muscles that elevate the angle of the mouth?

Muscles that elevate the angle of the mouth?


Which muscles helps to open the mouth and depress the mandible?

lateral pterygoid, digastric, mylohyoid andgeniohyoid muscles


What muscle opens and closes your jaw?

Gravity plays a large part in opening the jaw, but there are muscles that help forcefully open your jaw. The most important of these is the digastric muscle, which connects from the mastoid process of the temporal bone to the hyoid bone, and then from the hyoid bone to the digastric fossa of the mandible.


What muscles is responsible for the protraction of the mandible?

The lateral pterygoid muscle has a triangular shape, with two heads; superior and inferior. It has horizontally orientated muscle fibers, and is the major protractor of the mandible.


What is the small rectangular muscles that square the shoulders as they act together to retract the scapula?

Rhomboids


What is the bone that is known as your jaw bone?

A person has two jaw bones. One upper jaw bone called the maxilla and the lower bone called the mandible. The maxilla doesn't move but the mandible does. The muscle (masseter) that closes the two is one of the strongest muscles in the human body.


What small muscles elevate the ribs during breathing?

External intercostal muscles are the ones between the ribs that help elevate them during inspiration.


What are two muscles that connect to the mandible and cranium and close the jaw?

Masseter, Lateral pterygoid, Temporalis.


Goosebumps are caused by contractions of what muscles?

The "arrectores pilorum" or hair erector muscles elevate the hair follicles above the rest of the skin causing what we call " Goose Bumps "