• Codex@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The iris of your eye (the colored part) is a muscle that controls the size of the pupil (the black part that let’s light in). The muscles in your cheeks control the corners of your mouth, which I guess is why they’re all sunk in: no tension to hold the skin up.

    I’m not so sure about the accuracy of this picture either, maybe it was something else with a funny caption?

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      4 months ago

      They are not just sunken in. We see the teeth, there is nothing left. As if they are made of 100 % muscle.