The five parts of the tongue include the tip, body, and base, and the involvement of extrinsic and intrinsic muscles. The tip is the most mobile, the body has a rough surface and smooth undersurface, and the base is the most posterior aspect of the tongue. The intrinsic muscles control ...
When at rest and the mouth is closed, it fills the oral cavity, resting in the lingual surfaces of the teeth, beneath the under surface of the hard and soft palate. The tip of the tongue is usually in contact with the hard palate behind the upper incisor teeth. The present article ...
CN IX-receives taste and touch sensations from tongue vagus nerve CN X-provides parasympathetic innervation to most thoracic and abdominal viscera accessory nerve CN XI -Muscles of the neck that move head hypoglossal nerve CN XII-innervates intrinsic and extrinsic tongue muscles -"under the tongue"...
Oral cavity Tongue anatomy Tongue muscles Tongue innervation Sources Related articles + Show all Oral cavity The oral cavity is situated anteriorly on the face, under the nasal cavities. It is bounded by a roof, a floor and lateral walls. Anteriorly it opens to the face through the...
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Eyes, eye-fringes, iris of the eye, eyebrows, and the waking or sleeping of the lids, Mouth, tongue, lips, teeth, roof of the mouth, jaws, and the jaw-hinges, Nose, nostrils of the nose, and the partition, Cheeks, temples, forehead, chin, throat, ...
- tongue- mandible- velum (soft palate)- lips- cheeks- larynx- hyoid bone immobile articulators - alveolar ridge- hard palate- teeth bones of the face - mandible- maxillae- nasal bone- palatine bone and nasal conchae- vomer- zygomatic bone- lacrimal bone- frontal bone class II maloclusion...
The oropharynx is posterior to the oral cavity, between the soft palate and the pharyngoepiglottic fold. Important structures within the oropharynx include the soft palate, tonsils, base of the tongue, and pharyngeal bands, which are nodules of lymphoid tissue. The laryngopharynx is the final ...