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What is the unattached bone below the mandible called?
Hyoid bone. It supports the tongue and serves as an attachment for muscles that move the tongue and function in swallowing.
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.
Which of the jawbones move?
Mandible
What one bone can move your skull?
the thing that can move in your skull is your (mandible)or jaw.
What is the you shape bone lying just below the mandible?
Hyoid bone. It supports the tongue and serves as an attachment for muscles that move the tongue and function in swallowing.
Which muscles helps to open the mouth and depress the mandible?
lateral pterygoid, digastric, mylohyoid andgeniohyoid muscles
How many muscles are in a dog's tail?
Dog tails have between six and 23 mobile vertebrae and muscles in them. They help to lift and move it from side to side.
What is the name of only part of your skull you can move?
jaw, 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 movement of the skeletal muscle will make the bones move?
Muscles move bones only by contraction. The human finger for example... on one side of the finger is a set of muscles that extends the finger away from the palm and on the other side are a set of muscles that pull the the finger to the palm. Both work by a series of shortenings of the fibers inside the muscles.
Which muscles elevate and retract the mandible?
Temporalis, Masseter and the Medial Pterygoid
What are the bones that move muscles called?
All muscles can move, but only skeletal muscles are voluntary. The cardiac and the smooth muscles cannot be moved by your will, but skeletal muscles can be.
