MUSCLES OF THE EAR. 



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75.* 



and extends outwards as far as the middle of the superciliary 

 ridge. 



Use. To draw the eyebrow of that side towards trie other, 

 and make it project over the inner canthus of the eye. When 

 both act, they pull down the skin of the forehead, and make it 

 wrinkle particularly between the eyebrows. 



Muscles of the Ear. 

 1. Attollens Auris, 



Arises, thin, broad, and tendinous, from the tendon of the 



occipito-frontalis, from 

 which it is almost in- 

 separable, where it co- 

 vers the aponeurosis of 

 the temporal muscle. 



Inserted into the up- 

 per part of the ear, op- 

 posite to the antihelix. 



Use. To draw the ear 

 upwards, and make the 

 parts, into which it is 

 inserted, tense. 



2. Anterior Auris , 



Arises, thin and mem- 

 branous, near the pos- 

 terior part of the zygo- 

 ma. 



Inserted into a small 

 eminence on the back of 

 the helix, opposite to the 

 * ! yW ' " v concha. 



Use. To draw this eminence a little forwards and upwards. 



* g, Occipito-frontalis. m, Nasal slip of do. 

 Levator labii superioris alseque nasi. 5, Masseter. 



n, Compressor naris. k, 

 q, Attollens auris. r, Re- 



trahentes auris, usually two in number, p, Platysma myoides. 5, Sterno- 

 cleido-mastoid. u, Trapezius. v, Splenius capitis. i, Splenius colli. TV, Del- 

 toid. The rest of the muscles known by references to the cuts No. 76, 77, 78. 



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