Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 20.
Published in final edited form as: Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Eng Imaging Vis. 2016 Apr 8;6(5):499–507. doi: 10.1080/21681163.2016.1162752

Table 4.

Functional proportion of the tongue for grouped muscles.

(A) Extrinsic (%) Intrinsic (%) FOM (%) (B) Protrusor (%) Retrusor (%) (C) Elevator (%) Depressor (%)
SL 13.2 GG 22.1 SL 13.2
IL 5.3 V 16.1 SG 3.0
V 16.1 T 18.5 T 18.5
T 18.5 SL 13.2 MH 7.1
SG 3.0 IL 5.3 GH 5.6
HG 5.9 SG 3.0 ABD 3.2
GG 22.1 HG 5.9 GG 22.1
MH 7.1 MH IL 5.3
GH 5.6 GH HG 5.9
ABD 3.2 ABD V 16.1
total 30.9 53.2 15.9 total 56.7 27.3 total 72.7 49.4