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Stylohyoid muscle

Anatomy; Human body

A muscle with origin from the styloid process of the temporal bone, with insertion into the hyoid bone by two slips on either side of the intermediate tendon of the digastric muscle, with nerve ...

Sternohyoid muscle

Anatomy; Human body

A muscle with origin from the episternum and the first costal cartilage, with insertion into the hyoid bone, with nerve supply from the upper cervical nerve through the cervical ansa, and whose ...

One of the 12 muscles of the mouth. A muscular fibrous band, it arises in the fascia over the masseter and inserts into the skin at the corner of the mouth. It acts to retract the angle of the mouth, ...

Melanin

Anatomy; Human body

A dark-brown to black pigment occuring in the hair, the skin, and in the iris of eye.

Splenius cervicis muscle

Anatomy; Human body

The splenius cervicis (also known as the splenius colli) is a muscle in the back of the neck. It arises by a narrow tendinous band from the spinous processes of the third to the sixth thoracic ...

Levator scapulae muscle

Anatomy; Human body

The levator scapulae muscle resides at that back and side of the neck. Levator means to lift in Latin, so as the name implies, its goal is to lift the scapula. It comes up by tendinous slips from the ...

Scalene muscles

Anatomy; Human body

The scalene muscles are lateral vertebral muscles that begin at the first and second ribs and pass up into the sides of the neck. There are three of these muscles. (1) The scalenus anterior muscle, ...