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The frontalis muscle () is a skeletal muscle which covers parts of the forehead of the human skull. Some sources consider the frontalis muscle to be a distinct muscle. However, Terminologia Anatomica currently classifies it as part of the occipitofrontalis muscle along with the occipitalis muscle.
In humans, the frontalis muscle only serves for facial expressions.
The frontalis muscle is supplied by the facial nerve and receives blood from the supraorbital and supratrochlear arteries.
The muscle has no bony attachments. Its medial fibers are continuous with those of the procerus; its intermediate fibers blend with the corrugator and orbicularis oculi muscles, thus attached to the skin of the eyebrows; and its lateral fibers are also blended with the latter muscle over the zygomatic process of the frontal bone.
From these attachments the fibers are directed upward, and join the galea aponeurotica below the coronal suture.
The medial margins of the frontalis muscles are joined together for some distance above the root of the Human nose; but between the occipitales there is a considerable, though variable, interval, occupied by the galea aponeurotica.
In the eyebrows, its primary function is to lift them (thus opposing the orbital portion of the orbicularis), especially when looking up. It also acts when a view is too distant or dim."eye, human."Encyclopædia Britannica. 2008. Encyclopædia Britannica 2006 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD 2009 The frontalis muscle also serves to wrinkle the forehead.
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