# Muscles

# Facial Muscles (Kleio)

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Overview of facial muscles, front and side view.

</details>**Synonyms: Face muscles; Mimic muscles; Facial anatomy; Eye muscles; Eye closure; Mouth muscles; Laughing; Smiling; Frowning; Squinting**

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### **Summary**

<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Facial Muscles are a group of </span>**skeletal muscles** responsible for **facial expressions** and other movements**.**

[![IMG_0731.jpeg](https://www.anatomyarchive.org/uploads/images/gallery/2025-08/scaled-1680-/img-0731.jpeg)](https://www.anatomyarchive.org/uploads/images/gallery/2025-08/scaled-1680-/img-0731.jpeg)

#### **Overview**

Here I used the Loomis Method to get the general shape and proportion of the head.

[![IMG_0733.jpeg](https://www.anatomyarchive.org/uploads/images/gallery/2025-08/scaled-1680-/img-0733.jpeg)](https://www.anatomyarchive.org/uploads/images/gallery/2025-08/scaled-1680-/img-0733.jpeg)

[![IMG_0732.jpeg](https://www.anatomyarchive.org/uploads/images/gallery/2025-08/scaled-1680-/img-0732.jpeg)](https://www.anatomyarchive.org/uploads/images/gallery/2025-08/scaled-1680-/img-0732.jpeg)

#### **Muscles**

1. occipitofrontalis
2. temporal fascia
3. <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">orbicularis oculi </span>
4. orbicularis oculi
5. <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">procerus </span>
6. nasalis muscle
7. <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">levator labii superioris </span>
8. levator labii superioris (infra orbital)
9. zygomaticus minor
10. zygomaticus major
11. masseter
12. orbicularis oris
13. risorius muscle
14. <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">levator anguli oris </span>
15. buccinator muscle
16. triangularis
17. <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">quadratus labii inferioris </span>
18. <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">mentalis </span>
19. <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">occipilatis </span>
20. auricular muscles

#### **Facial Expressions**<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>

[![IMG_0788.jpeg](https://www.anatomyarchive.org/uploads/images/gallery/2025-09/scaled-1680-/img-0788.jpeg)](https://www.anatomyarchive.org/uploads/images/gallery/2025-09/scaled-1680-/img-0788.jpeg)

#### **Reference Pictures (for study only)**

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[![Reference-Pictures_Expressions-5163 copy.webp](https://www.anatomyarchive.org/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/reference-pictures-expressions-5163-copy.webp)](https://www.anatomyarchive.org/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/reference-pictures-expressions-5163-copy.webp)

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[![Grafit-Sample-064.jpg](https://www.anatomyarchive.org/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/grafit-sample-064.jpg)](https://www.anatomyarchive.org/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/grafit-sample-064.jpg)

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</details>**Sources:**  
**Civardi, Giovanni, 2016. Figure Drawing: A Complete Guide. Search Press**