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Prime mover to raise the mandible?
The temporalis and masseter muscles are the primary muscles responsible for raising the mandible (lower jaw) during the process of chewing or biting. These muscles work together to produce the necessary force to close the mouth and elevate the mandible.
The temporalis acts to do what?
The temporalis muscle acts to elevate and retract the mandible (lower jaw) during the process of chewing. It is one of the main muscles involved in mastication (chewing) and helps in closing the mouth during jaw movements.
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 muscle helps you kiss?
Your facial muscles where your mouth is.
What type of muscles helps you move your jaw to chew food?
your mouth
What are the chewing mouth parts of arthropod called?
mandible
What are the salivary glands that lie on the inside of the mandible?
Sublingual and a portion of submandibular (lateral to sublingual) salivary gland.
Where is the location of mandible?
The mandible is the jawbone and is located in the lower part of the face, beneath the mouth. It is the largest and strongest bone in the human face.
What is a mandible?
I think the jaws
How many bones does a human mouth have?
The bones that make the human mouth include the mandible, maxilla, and palatine. If you count the teeth as well, adults have 32.
Muscles that elevate the angle of the mouth?
Muscles that elevate the angle of the mouth?
What are the four main parts of an insects mouth parts?
mandible, maxillae, labrum and the labium
