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Facial Muscles

Known as: Muscles, Facial, Face--Muscles, Facial muscle 
Muscles of facial expression or mimetic muscles that include the numerous muscles supplied by the facial nerve that are attached to and move the skin… 
National Institutes of Health

Related topics

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38 relations
Blood supply aspectsFaceHead and neck structureHemifacial myohyperplasia

Narrower (20)

Depressor anguli oris muscle structureIncisivus labii inferiorisIncisivus labii superiorisLevator labii superioris

Broader (5)

MuscleMuscle, StriatedSkeletal muscle structureSkeletal muscle structure of head

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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Facial Composite Production by Eyewitnesses
The creation of facial images by eyewitnesses using composite-production systems can be important for the investigation of crimes… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Glial cell-line derived neurotrophic factor-dependent fusimotor neuron survival during development
Review
2003
Review
2003
Preoperative facial muscle imaging predicts final facial function after facial nerve grafting.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Our goal was to determine whether preoperative MR imaging of facial muscles predicts facial function after… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Gross and Microscopic Findings in Patients Submitted to Nonablative Full‐Face Resurfacing Using Intense Pulsed Light: A Preliminary Study
BACKGROUND Intense pulsed light (IPL) is a noncoherent, nonlaser, filtered flashlamp emitting a broadband visible light that has… 
Review
1998
Review
1998
Face to virtual face
The first virtual humans appeared in the early 1980s in such films as Dreamflight (1982) and The Juggler (1982). Pioneering work… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Facial expression in schizophrenia
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
A psychometric study of surface electrode placements for facial electromyographic recording: I. The brow and cheek muscle regions.
Despite the burgeoning literature using facial electromyography (EMG) to study cognitive and emotional processes, the… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
The facial nucleus of the rat: Representation of facial muscles revealed by retrograde transport of horseradish peroxidase
The representation of facial muscle groups in the facial nucleus of rat was examined by retrograde transport of HRP. Motoneurons… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
The development of facial motoneurones in the mouse--neuronal death and the innervation of the facial muscles.
The relationship between neuronal death and the formation of patterned connections was studied in the facial neuromuscular system… 
1972
1972
Blink reflexes during sleep and wakefulness in man.
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