Gorge head musculature | Overview of the musculature

Gorge head musculature

  • Lower throat lacer – Musculus constrictor pharyngis inferior
  • Middle throat lacer – Musculus constrictor pharyngis medius
  • Upper throat lacer – Musculus constrictor pharyngis superior
  • Stylus-pharyngeal muscle (gullet lifter) – Musculus stylopharyngeus
  • Tube-pharyngeal muscle (gullet lifter) – Musculus salpingopharyngeus
  • Palatopharyngeal muscle (pharyngeal lifter) – Musculus palatopharyngeus

Outer tongue muscles

  • Cartilage-tongue muscle – Musculus chondroglossus
  • Chin-tongue muscle – Musculus genioglossus
  • Hyoid hyoid muscle – Musculus hyoglossus
  • Styloid muscle – Musculus styloglossus

Upper Hyoid Musculature

  • Chin hyoid muscle – Musculus geniohyoideus
  • Bifurcated muscle – Musculus digastricus
  • Hyoid muscle – Musculus mylohyoideus
  • Hyoid muscle – Musculus stylohyoideus

Lower hyoid muscles

  • Shoulder hyoid muscle – Musculus omohyoideus
  • Sternal hyoid muscle – Musculus sternohyoideus
  • Sternothyroid muscle – Musculus sternothyroideus
  • Thyroid cartilage hyoid muscle – Musculus thyrohyoideus

Laryngeal Musculature

  • Ring cartilage – Thyroid cartilage muscle – Musculus cricothyreoideus
  • Posterior cricoarytaenoid muscle – posterior cricoarytaenoid muscle
  • Outer cricoid cartilage – Musculus cricoarytaenoideus lateralis
  • Thyroid cartilage – Musculus thyreoarytaenoideus
  • Stellate cartilage muscle – Musculus arytaenoideus transversus
  • Oblique cartilage muscle – Musculus arytaenoideus obliquus
  • Thyroid cartilage – Musculus thyreoepiglotticus
  • Cartilage of the epiglottis – Musculus aryepiglotticus
  • Vocal muscle – Musculus vocalis

Neck Muscles

  • Long head muscle – Musculus longus capitis
  • Headrest – Musculus longus colli
  • Large head turner – Musculus sternocleidomastoid

Arm musculature – Upper arm musculature

Rotator cuff Elbow flexors Elbow extensors

  • Delta-shaped muscle – Musculus deltoideus
  • Large round muscle – Musculus teres major
  • Small round muscle – Musculus teres minor
  • Upper bone muscle – Musculus supraspinatus
  • Muscle of the lower bone – Musculus infraspinatus
  • Undershoulder leaf muscle – Musculus subscapularis
  • Biceps brachii (biceps) – Musculus biceps brachii
  • Upper arm muscleBrachialis muscle
  • Coracoid muscle – Musculus coracobrachialis
  • Three-headed upper arm muscle (triceps) – Musculus triceps brachii
  • Elbow muscle – Musculus anconeus