Isolating the movement of the tongue and jaw is important because you don’t have to press your tongue down to move your jaw or move your jaw when your tongue moves. The tongue and jaw are members of the same team, but they don’t have to play at the same time. Saying the y allows you to move the back of your tongue.
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Muscles of the Neck: Head Movements. Head is moved by muscles originating from the axial skeleton. Major head flexor is the sternocleidomastoid muscles. Synergists to head flexion are the suprahyoid and infrahyoid. Lateral head movements are accomplished by the sternocleidomastoid and. scalene muscles. Head extension is accomplished by the deep splenius muscles and aided by. the superficial trapezius.
http://www.kean.edu/~jfasick/docs/Fall%20Semester%20Lectures%20Chapt.%201-15%20%20'07/Chapter%2010B.pdf
Intrinsic tongue muscles with fibers running longitudinally, divided into superior and inferior LLM, forming the bread of the muscle sandwhich. Function: Draw the tongue dorsum back into the mouth. The superior LLM, acting alone, curl the tip of the dorsum up. The inferior LLM, acting alone, curl the tip down.
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Bounce your tongue again and then let it rest in your mouth. Notice what the tongue feels like when it’s resting in your mouth. It’s not tense or pushing up or down. It’s just lying in your mouth. Bounce your jaw and say “Ya-ya.”. Say “Ya-ya” several times, and let your jaw bounce or move up and down as you say it.
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The muscles of the anterior neck assist in deglutition (swallowing) and speech by controlling the positions of the larynx (voice box), and the hyoid bone, a horseshoe-shaped bone that functions as a solid foundation on which the tongue can move.
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Muscles That Move the Eyes. The movement of the eyeball is under the control of the extrinsic eye muscles, which originate outside the eye and insert onto the outer surface of the white of the eye. These muscles are located inside the eye socket and cannot be seen on any part of the visible eyeball ([link] and [link]).
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In conjunction with the Hyoglossus muscles, draws the dorsum back and down, as in a yawn. Intrinsic tongue muscles with fibers running longitudinally, divided into superior and inferior LLM, forming the bread of the muscle sandwhich. Draw the tongue dorsum back into the mouth. The superior LLM, acting alone, curl the tip of the dorsum up. The inferior LLM, acting alone, curl the tip down.
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Oral motor skills refers to the movement of muscles of the face (e.g. lips and jaw) and. oral area (e.g. tongue and soft palate), especially the movements related to speech. Although parents and clinicians frequently observe difficulty with oral motor skills.
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extrinsic tongue muscles originate. outside. change the shape of the tongue and contribute its exceptional nimbless, but they dont really move the tongue. intrinsic tongue muscle. anchor and move the tongue. extrnsic tongue muscles.
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The orbicularis oris is a circular muscle that moves the lips, and the orbicularis oculi is a circular muscle that closes the eye. The occipitofrontalis muscle moves up the scalp and eyebrows. The muscle has a frontal belly and an occipital (near the occipital bone on the posterior part of the skull) belly.
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what muscle moves the tongue down
Inferior LLM muscle moves the tongue down.