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The spring-like property that returns muscle to its original length after a contraction ends is A) extensibility. B) elasticity. C) contractility.D) treppe effect. E) conductivity.
Omohyoid (Superior and Inferior bellies)
Occipitofrontalis - Elevates eyebrows and wrinkles skin of forehead, protracts scalp
scattered throughout the body, pineal, pituitary, thyroid, thymus, pancreas, adrenal glands , ovaries, testes
Growth hormoneThyroid stimulating hormoneAdrenocorticotropic hormoneLuteinizing hormoneFollicle stimulating hormoneProlactinMelanocyte stimulating hormone
Depressor Labii Inferioris - Draws lower lip downward and laterally
Platysma- Depresses the mandible and tenses skin of inferior face
Corrugator Supercilii - Produces vertical folds between eyebrows - Worried or angry look
Levator Palpabrae Superioris- raises the eyelid This muscle is the exception to the facial nerve rule—it is innervated by the occulomotor nerve (cranial nerve #3)
Mineralocorticoids (aldosterone), glucocorticoids (cortisol), gonadocorticoids (androgens)
Auricularis Muscles- Auricularis Anterior - Draws the ear anteriorly- Auricularis Superior - Elevates the ear- Auricularis Posterior Draws the ear posteriorly- Auricularis Anterior and Superior - Tightens and moves the scalp
Thyroid hormone, triiodothyronine and thyroxine
Antidiuretic hormone (vasopressin)
Prolactin inhibiting hormone (dopamine)
Modulate or gate the responses of thalamic neurons to incoming cerebral cortical input
regulation of alertness and attention, emotional tone and the acquisition of recent memory
-secretes melatonins-regulates circadian rhythms-tumors can affect sexual development
Endochondral ossification forms what type of bones?
to the dorsal nuclei of thalamus other parts of the reticular nucleus, not to the cortex
involves flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, and rotation