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| Muscle that helps raise the head or helps turn the head to the side. |
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| Large muscle arising from the ventral margin of the zygomatich arch and inserting on the mandible. |
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| Muscle along the mandible; it is a major jaw opening muscle. |
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| Superficial muscle layer extending cranially to the fourth rib; its muscle fibers run from craniolateral to craniomedial. |
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| The thin sheet of transverse muscle fibers forming part of the floor of the mouth; it raises the floor of the mouth and assists in swallowing. |
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| Muscle arising from the temporal fossa of the skull and passing deep to the zygomatic arch; it inserts on the mandible. |
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| Muscle lying directly under the obliquus externus. |
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| Muscle beneath the intercostalis externus; it has muscle fibers running at right angles to the intercostalis externus. |
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| Muscle fiber extending between the two ribs. |
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| Longitudinal muscle band arising from the fourth rib cartilage; it attaches caudally to the pubis. |
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