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Muscles of the tongue

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Last reviewed: 20.11.2021
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Among the muscles of the tongue, paired, striated, distinguish their own muscles and muscles, beginning on the bones of the skeleton (skeletal muscles). The native muscles of the tongue begin and end within the tongue, and the skeletal muscles have a bone beginning.

Skeletal muscles of the tongue

Muscle

Start

Attachment

Function

Innervation

The chin-lingual muscle

Chinstrap of lower jaw

Top and base of tongue

Pulls the tongue forward and downward

Upper laryngeal nerve

Sublingual-lingual muscle

Body and large horn of the hyoid bone

The lateral part of the tongue

Pulls the tongue down and back

Lower laryngeal nerve

Silo-lingual muscle

The styloid process of the temporal bone

Lateral and lower parts of the tongue

Pulls the tongue back and forth

Also

trusted-source[1], [2], [3]

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