3D Study of Tongue Muscles: Extrinsic & Intrinsic, Focus on Genioglossus, Transversus & Ve, Study notes of Microbiology

Extrinsic and intrinsic muscles

of the tongue

Three-dimensional schemata of the tongue musculature

based on dissection and histologic data.

Figs. 9 and 10a-d from Takemoto (2001), JSLHR 44(1),

The figures are ordered from outer to inner musculature.

Note in particular the layered structure (“lamina”) of

Genioglossus, Transversus and Verticalis.