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*Styloglossus
*Styloglossus
**Origin: Hyoid apparatus (stylohyoid)
**Origin: [[Hyoid Apparatus - Anatomy & Physiology|Hyoid apparatus]] (stylohyoid)
**Retracts and elevates tongue
**Retracts and elevates tongue
*Genioglossus
*Genioglossus
**Origin: Incisive part of mandible
**Origin: Incisive part of [[Skull and Facial Muscles - Anatomy & Physiology#Mandible (mandibula)|mandible]]
**Protrudes and depressed tongue
**Protrudes and depressed tongue
*Hyoglossus
*Hyoglossus
**Origin: Hyoid apparatus (basihyoid)
**Origin: [[Hyoid Apparatus - Anatomy & Physiology|Hyoid apparatus]] (basihyoid)
**Retracts and depresses tongue
**Retracts and depresses tongue
*Geniohyoideus
*Geniohyoideus
**Origin: Incisive part of mandible
**Origin: Incisive part of [[Skull and Facial Muscles - Anatomy & Physiology#Mandible (mandibula)|mandible]]
**Insertion: Body of hyoid
**Insertion: Body of [[Hyoid Apparatus - Anatomy & Physiology|Hyoid]]
**Lies below the tongue (not within it)
**Lies below the tongue (not within it)
**Draws the hyoid and therefore the tongue forward
**Draws the [[Hyoid Apparatus - Anatomy & Physiology|Hyoid]] and therefore the tongue forward
[[Image:Tongue Muscles Drawing.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Drawing of the Extrinsic Muscles of the Tongue - Copyright nabrown]]
[[Image:Tongue Muscles Drawing.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Drawing of the Extrinsic Muscles of the Tongue - Copyright nabrown]]
==Innervation==
==Innervation==