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  2. Facial muscles - Wikipedia

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    The facial muscles are just under the skin (subcutaneous) muscles that control facial expression. They generally originate from the surface of the skull bone (rarely the fascia), and insert on the skin of the face. When they contract, the skin moves. These muscles also cause wrinkles at right angles to the muscles’ action line.

  3. Facial Action Coding System - Wikipedia

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    Muscles of head and neck. The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) is a system to taxonomize human facial movements by their appearance on the face, based on a system originally developed by a Swedish anatomist named Carl-Herman Hjortsjö. [1] It was later adopted by Paul Ekman and Wallace V. Friesen, and published in 1978. [2]

  4. Facial expression - Wikipedia

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    Facial expression is the motion and positioning of the muscles beneath the skin of the face. These movements convey the emotional state of an individual to observers and are a form of nonverbal communication. They are a primary means of conveying social information between humans, but they also occur in most other mammals and some other animal ...

  5. Facial nerve - Wikipedia

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    Facial expression. The main function of the facial nerve is motor control of all the muscles of facial expression. It also innervates the posterior belly of the digastric muscle, the stylohyoid muscle, and the stapedius muscle of the middle ear. These skeletal muscles are developed from the second pharyngeal arch.

  6. Zygomaticus major muscle - Wikipedia

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    The zygomaticus major muscle is a muscle of the face. It arises from either zygomatic arch (cheekbone); it inserts at the corner of the mouth. It is innervated by branches of the facial nerve (cranial nerve VII). It is a muscle of facial expression, which draws the angle of the mouth superiorly and posteriorly to allow one to smile.

  7. Corrugator supercilii muscle - Wikipedia

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    The corrugator supercilii muscle is a small, [1] narrow, [citation needed] pyramidal muscle [1] of the face. [citation needed] It arises from the medial end of the superciliary arch; it inserts into the deep surface of the skin of the eyebrow. It draws the eyebrow downward and medially, producing the vertical "frowning" wrinkles of the forehead.

  8. Depressor anguli oris muscle - Wikipedia

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    Depressor anguli oris muscle. Scheme showing arrangement of fibers of Orbicularis oris (triangularis labeled at bottom right). Muscles of the head, face, and neck (labeled as triangularis near chin). The depressor anguli oris muscle (triangularis muscle) is a facial muscle. It originates from the mandible and inserts into the angle of the mouth.

  9. Zygomaticus minor muscle - Wikipedia

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    Muscles of the head, face, and neck. The zygomaticus minor muscle is a muscle of facial expression. It originates from the zygomatic bone, lateral to the rest of the levator labii superioris muscle, and inserts into the outer part of the upper lip. It draws the upper lip backward, upward, and outward and is used in smiling.

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