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What is the slender muscle that parallels the posterior belly of the digastric muscle?
Stylohyoid Muscle
What muscles has two bellies?
The digastric muscle, which is a small muscle located under the jaw.
What is the antagonist of the masseter?
The antagonist of the masseter muscle is the digastric muscle. It helps to open the jaw by working against the masseter muscle during swallowing and speaking.
Which muscles helps to open the mouth and depress the mandible?
lateral pterygoid, digastric, mylohyoid andgeniohyoid muscles
Where is the Digastric muscle located?
Is located under the jaw,it lies below the body of mandible, and extend in a curve form, from the Mastoid Process to the Symphysis Menti.Belongs to the Suprahyiod muscle group and helps activate the jaw for mastication and swallowing.
Which term best describes cardiac muscle?
that best describes cardiac muscle is multincieated
Why do your hand muscles contract when you yawn?
When you yawn, the muscle responsible for opening your mouth (digastric muscle) can also activate some of the muscles in your hand as they are all controlled by the same cranial nerve, the trigeminal nerve. This phenomenon is known as referred motor activity.
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.
Which muscle characteristic describes the ability of muscle to respond to a stimulus?
Excitability
What part of speech describes the action?
An adverb describes the action. Verbs are action words; adverbs describe the action. In the example "he giggled uncontrollably" 'giggled' is the verb and 'uncontrollably' is the adverb because it describes the action of giggling.
What muscle that counteracts the action of another muscle?
antagonist muscle
What the terms describes the motion of bending the forearm toward the body?
The term that describes the motion of bending the forearm toward the body is elbow flexion. This action typically involves the contraction of the biceps muscle located on the front of the upper arm.
