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Official status
Official language of: Vatican City
Used for official purposes, but not spoken in everyday speech
Regulated by: Opus Fundatum Latinitas
Roman Catholic Church
Language codes
ISO 639-1: la
ISO 639-2: lat
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bold refer to the diagram at right.)

In the skull (8):

• 1-9. cranium
• 7. mandible

''In the middle ears (6):

• malleus
• incus
• stapes

In the throat (1):

• hyoid

In the shoulder girdle (4):
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The Auriculares muscles are the three muscles surrounding the auricula or outer ear.

• The Auricularis anterior (Attrahens aurem), the smallest of the three, is thin and fan-shaped, and its fibers are pale and indistinct.

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bold refer to the diagram at right.)

In the skull (8):

• 1-9. cranium
• 7. mandible

''In the middle ears (6):

• malleus
• incus
• stapes

In the throat (1):

• hyoid

In the shoulder girdle (4):
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The galea aponeurotica (epicranial aponeurosis) covers the upper part of the cranium; behind, it is attached, in the interval between its union with the Occipitales, to the external occipital protuberance and highest nuchal lines of the occipital bone; in front, it forms a
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Arteries are muscular blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.^[1] All arteries, with the exception of the pulmonary and umbilical arteries, carry oxygenated blood.

The circulatory system is extremely important for sustaining life.
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• Accessory nerve
• Accessory obturator nerve
• Alderman's nerve
• Anococcygeal nerve
• Ansa cervicalis
• Anterior interosseous nerve
• Anterior superior alveolar nerve
• Aortic plexus
• Auerbach's plexus
• Auriculotemporal nerve
• Axillary nerve

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Kinesiology is the scientific study of the anatomy, physiology, and mechanics of body movement, especially in humans. ^[1] The word kinesiology is derived the Greek "kinesis" (motion) + the suffix -ology or -logy from the greek "logos" or "logia"(meaning a field of study).
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Elsevier, the world's largest publisher of medical and scientific literature, forms part of the Reed Elsevier group. Based in Amsterdam, the company has substantial operations in the UK, USA and elsewhere.
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The Auriculares muscles are the three muscles surrounding the auricula or outer ear.

• The Auricularis anterior (Attrahens aurem), the smallest of the three, is thin and fan-shaped, and its fibers are pale and indistinct.

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Loyola University Chicago is a private co-educational religious-affiliated university established in Chicago in 1870 as Saint Ignatius College. It was founded by the Roman Catholic religious order of the Society of Jesus and bears the name of the Jesuit patron, Saint Ignatius of
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GPnotebook is a British medical database for general practitioners (GPs).^[1] It is an online encyclopaedia of medicine that provides an immediate reference resource for clinicians worldwide. The database consists of over 30,000 pages of information.
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eMedicine is an online clinical medical knowledge base that was founded in 1996 by Scott Plantz and Richard Lavely, two medical doctors. It was sold to WebMD in January 2006.
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MUSCLE (multiple sequence comparison by log-expectation) is public domain, multiple sequence alignment software for protein and nucleotide sequences.
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Head and neck anatomy focuses on the structures of the head and neck of the human body, including the brain, bones, muscles, blood vessels, nerves, glands, nose, mouth, teeth, tongue, and throat.
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head of an animal is the rostral part (from anatomical position) that usually comprises the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth (all of which aid in various sensory functions, such as sight, hearing, smell, and taste).
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''For other uses of the word, see Scalp (disambiguation)

The scalp is the anatomical area bordered by the face anteriorly and the neck to the sides and posteriorly.
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An eyelid is a thin fold of skin and muscle that covers and protects an eye. With the exception of the prepuce and the labia minora, it has the thinnest skin of the whole body. The levator palpebrae superioris muscle retracts the eyelid to "open" the eye.
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The Occipitofrontalis is a muscle of the human body, with two parts:

• the "occipital" part/belly, near the occipital bone.
• the "frontal" part/belly, near the frontal bone.

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The Occipitalis, thin and quadrilateral in form, arises by tendinous fibers from the lateral two-thirds of the superior nuchal line of the occipital bone, and from the mastoid part of the temporal. It ends in the galea aponeurotica.
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The Frontalis is thin, of a quadrilateral form, and intimately adherent to the superficial fascia. It is broader than the Occipitalis and its fibers are longer and paler in color.

It has no bony attachments.
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The orbicularis oculi is a muscle in the face that closes the eyelids. It arises from the nasal part of the frontal bone, from the frontal process of the maxilla in front of the lacrimal groove, and from the anterior surface and borders of a short fibrous band, the medial
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The Corrugator supercilii is a small, narrow, pyramidal muscle, placed at the medial end of the eyebrow, beneath the Frontalis and Orbicularis oculi.

It arises from the medial end of the superciliary arch; and its fibers pass upward and lateralward, between the palpebral
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The Depressor Supercilii is an eye muscle of the human body. The nature of this muscle is in some dispute. Few printed anatomies include it (Netter, et al) and many authorities consider it to be part of the orbicularis oculi muscle ^[1].
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extraocular muscles are the six muscles that control the movements of the eye. The actions of the extraocular muscles depend on the position of the eye at the time of muscle contraction.
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The levator palpebrae superioris (or levator muscle of upper eyelid) is the muscle in the orbit that elevates the superior (upper) eyelid.

Structure

The levator palpebrae superioris originates on the lesser wing of the sphenoid bone, just above the optic foramen.
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The superior tarsal muscle (Müller's Muscle) is a smooth muscle adjoining the levator palpebrae superioris muscle that helps to raise the upper eyelid.

Structure

The superior tarsal muscle originates on the underside of levator palpebrae superioris and inserts on the
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The superior rectus muscle is a muscle in the orbit. It is one of the extraocular muscles.

It is innervated by the superior division of the oculomotor nerve (Cranial Nerve III).
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The inferior rectus muscle is a muscle in the orbit.

Actions

It depresses, adducts, rotates laterally, and extorts the eye.

Innervation

As with most of the muscles of the orbit, it is innervated by the oculomotor nerve (Cranial Nerve III).
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The medial rectus muscle is a muscle in the orbit.

As with most of the muscles of the orbit, it is innervated by the inferior division of the oculomotor nerve (Cranial Nerve III).
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