
Master the challenging muscular system anatomy, including facial and head and neck muscles, with expert guidance from a resident physician, making anatomy easier and exam-ready.
Learn how muscle names convey size, length, shape, and orientation, and how anatomical position, midline, and motions like flexion, extension, abduction, and adduction guide naming.
Discover scalp muscles, including the frontal and occipital bellies of the occipitofrontalis, their roles in eyebrow elevation and forehead wrinkling, and the epicranial aponeurosis that connects them.
Muscles around the eyes
Muscles around the mouth
Learn about the muscles of mastication and how they elevate the mandible to close the mouth, and protract, depress, and perform side-to-side movements for chewing.
Explore the muscles of mastication that move the tongue and palate, including genioglossus, styloglossus, palatoglossus, and hyoglossus, and their roles in protruding, elevating, retracting, or depressing the tongue.
Explore the anterior neck muscles above the hyoid bone, including the gastric, stylohyoid, mylohyoid, and geniohyoid, and their roles in elevating the hyoid, depressing the mandible, and facilitating swallowing.
Learn the infra hyoid muscles of the neck, including omohyoid, sternohyoid, sternothyroid, and thyrohyoid, and how their attachments depress the hyoid and larynx during swallowing.
Explore the anterior, middle, and posterior scalene muscles and a neck muscle attaching to the sternum and clavicle, enabling neck flexion, lateral bending, rotation, and rib elevation during forced inspiration.
This course can be used as an introduction or as a review for muscles of the scalp, face, and anterior neck. The main goal is to be able to identify each muscle by visualizing it. The other goal is to learn and understand its function. Ultimately, this course is designed to help you learn all this information in little time and in a less overwhelming manner. The course also has many opportunities to test your knowledge, which is crucial when learning anatomy.