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depresses hyoid bone and fixes hyoid bone during opening of mouth
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What muscle has two bellies joined by an intermediate tendon?
Omohyoid
What muscles are responsible for depression of the hyoid bone?
Superior belly of omohyoid muscle
What muscle starts with the letter o?
Orbicularis oculi Obicularis oris Omohyoid Occipitofrontalis
What muscles depresses the hyroid bone and larynx?
The sternohyoid muscle, Omohyoid muscle, and Thyroid muscle are three muscles that are responsible for the depression of the hyoid bone.
What is the action of omohyoid muscle and what is the benefit of depressing the hyoid bone?
The action of the omohyoid is to depress the hyoid. Its name derives from the Greek "omos" meaning shoulder, giving one of its attachments, and "hyoid", giving the other attachment - the hyoid bone. The function of the hyoid seems to be in voice variations. All mammals have them and there are arguments if primitive hominids used them as we do.
What muscles is not involved in the process of chewing or manipulating food in the mouth A. Masseter B. Omohyoid C. Temporalis D. Pterygoid E. Hyoglossus?
B. Omohyoid. The omohyoid muscle is not directly involved in the process of chewing or manipulating food in the mouth. It acts to depress and stabilize the hyoid bone in the neck.
What tissue's major function is to contract?
The muscle tissue's main function is to contract.
What is muscle action of the esophagus?
Thyrohyoid is a suprahyoid muscle and it depresses the larynx , it also helps in swallowing and deglutition , some Indian books state that is an elevator of the larynx , but most literature that i have read states it to be a depressor , other depressors of the larynx are omohyoid , sternohyoid and sternothyrohyoid.
What is the function of the epicranial aponeurosis?
attachements of muscle to muscle
What are the main function of the muscle?
the muscle are to move the bone.
What Major function is to contract?
muscle tissue
What is the function of that muscle?
to complete the function commanded by the brain
