The levator anguli oris (caninus) is a
facial
A facial is a family of skin care treatments for the face, including steam, exfoliation (physical and chemical), extraction, creams, lotions, facial masks, peels, and massage. They are normally performed in beauty salons, but are also a comm ...
muscle
Skeletal muscles (commonly referred to as muscles) are organs of the vertebrate muscular system and typically are attached by tendons to bones of a skeleton. The muscle cells of skeletal muscles are much longer than in the other types of mus ...
of the
mouth
In animal anatomy, the mouth, also known as the oral cavity, or in Latin cavum oris, is the opening through which many animals take in food and issue vocal sounds. It is also the cavity lying at the upper end of the alimentary canal, bounded on ...
arising from the
canine fossa, immediately below the
infraorbital foramen. It
elevates angle of mouth medially. Its fibers are inserted into the angle of the mouth, intermingling with those of the
zygomaticus,
triangularis, and
orbicularis oris
In human anatomy, the orbicularis oris muscle is a complex of muscles in the lips that encircles the mouth.
It is a sphincter, or circular muscle, but it is actually composed of four independent quadrants that interlace and give only an appearance ...
. Specifically, the levator anguli oris is innervated by the
buccal branches of the facial nerve
The buccal branches of the facial nerve (infraorbital branches), are of larger size than the rest of the branches, pass horizontally forward to be distributed below the orbit and around the mouth.
Branches
The ''superficial branches'' run beneath ...
.
Additional images
File:Sobo 1909 264.png
File:Sobo 1909 263.png, Seen from the inside.
References
External links
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Muscles of the head and neck
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