The floor of the mouth, also called “diaphragma oris,” includes the soft tissues between the medial aspect of the mandibular body and the hyoid bone. As such, it represents the inferior border of the oral cavity. Four of the six large salivary glands are associated with the floor of the...
Thesublingual glandsare the smallest of the majorsalivary glandsand are the most deeply situated. Each lies in the floor of the mouth between the mandible and the genioglossus muscle. The first echelon nodes for thefloor of mouthare thesubmandibular lymph nodes(level IB), which may be stratifi...
ORAL CAVITY AND FLOOR OF THE MOUTH: MALIGNANT TUMORS ANTHONY A. MANCUSO, WILLIAM M. MENDENHALL, AND JOHN W. WERNING KEY POINTS Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging are critical to the medical decision making process in oral cavity carcinoma
Collectively, the subdivisions of pubococcygeus and the puborectalis muscle together are referred to as the pubovisceralis. Master the pelvic floor muscles anatomy with our video tutorials, quizzes, labeled diagrams, and articles: Muscles of the pelvic floor and perineum Explore study unit ...
Knowledge of the anatomy is crucial for accurate localisation of pathology and understanding the spread of disease. The sublingual space is the dominant component of the floor of the mouth, bounded inferiorly by the mylohyoid muscle that separates it from the submandibular ...
The OI has several major functions for the body. First, it is a deep hip external rotator, and has shown to be active during the movements of hip extension, external rotation and abduction. In fact,this researchshowed that it was the first muscle to turn on in these motions (which I th...
Neoplasms of the Oral Cavity This chapter deals with benign and malignant neoplasms of the oral cavity. It starts with an overview of the relevant anatomy of the floor of the mouth, the tongue, the lips and gingivobuccal regions, the hard palate,and the region of th... M Keberle - Spri...
in our case [2]. A more advanced presentation of ranula is the plunging ranula that is an extension of the oral ranula into the neck along the deep lobe of the submandibular gland between the mylohyoid and hyoglossus muscles or through congenital dehiscence in the mylohyoid muscle [3,4]....
On the Life History and the Anatomy of the Early Stages of Forcipomyia (Diptera, Nemat., Ceratopogoninae) (5) The mouth-parts consist of a fleshy labrum, a pair of small premandibles, a pair of long, slender mandibles working in the sagittal plane on either side of the labrum, a ...
The Anatomy of the Pelvic Floor The pelvic floor contains 14 to 16 different muscles that are woven together in three layers. Like any other muscle in the body, the pelvic floor muscles can also become weak, tight, and/or fatigued. This causes pelvic floor dysfunction. ...