Muscular system
Levator labii superioris
- System
- Muscular system
- Regions
- Head
- Side
- Left and right
- Part of
- Facial muscles
DescriptionUnreviewed
The levator labii superioris (pl. levatores labii superioris, also called quadratus labii superioris, pl. quadrati labii superioris) is a muscle of the human body used in facial expression.
It is a broad sheet, the origin of which extends from the side of the nose to the zygomatic bone.
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Muscle attachments
Origin
Names
- Latin
- Levator labii superioris
- English
- Levator labii superioris
- French
- Muscle élévateur de la lèvre supérieure
- Spanish
- Elevador del labio superior
- Portuguese
- Levantador do lábio superior
In the same group
- Bucinator
- Corrugator supercilii
- Depressor anguli oris
- Depressor labii inferioris
- Depressor septi nasi
- Levator anguli oris
- Levator nasolabialis
- Mentalis muscle
- Nasalis muscle
- Orbicularis oris muscle
- Orbital part of orbicularis oculi
- Palpebral part of orbicularis oculi
- Procerus muscle
- Risorius muscle
- Zygomaticus major muscle
- Zygomaticus minor muscle