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The TMJ disk is attached to the:

Which of the following muscles, when contracted, make the client’s vestibule tight and shallow, thereby making it difficult to apply an instrument to the facial aspect of the mandibular teeth?

Which muscle “tenses” the anterior portion of the soft palate?

All of the following are lobes of the cerebral cortex EXCEPT:

Heparin, is a medically important polysaccharide that prevents blood from clotting. It is formed from repeating disaccharide units. If a heparin molecule contains 1000 of its disaccharide units, how many monosaccharides are present?

The following structure is a Haworth projection formula for an aldohexose. 

The platysma is not actually a muscle of facial expression. The movement of the skin of the neck does not affect one’s facial expression.

The temporomandibular joint (TMJ) allows for movement of the mandible during speech and mastication. Two basic types of movement are performed by the joint and its associated muscles: a gliding movement and a rotational movement.

All three pharyngeal constrictors work to raise the pharynx and larynx during:

The 3-letter code for the following structure, a dipeptide, is __________.