Interactions of Skeletal Muscles
The moveable end of the muscle that is attached to the bone being pulled.
What is the insertion?
They were the first to study the human body in Western culture.
Who are the Greeks and the Romans?
Prime mover that moves eyes up and toward the nose; rotates eyes from 1 o'clock to 3 o'clock.
What is superior rectus?
The four groups of muscles of the anterolateral abdominal wall.
What are the external obliques, internal obliques, the transversus abdominis, and the rectus abdominis?
Muscles that position the pectoral girdle are located in one of two places.
What are the anterior thorax and the posterior thorax?
The end of the muscle attached to a fixed (stabilized) bone.
What is the origin?
This is the Latin or Greek translation for ad-
What is to or toward?
Origin of the superior oblique muscle.
What is the sphenoid bone?
The target of the rectus abdominis.
What is the vertebral column?
The target of the subclavius, the origin is the first rib while the insertion is the inferior surface of the clavicle.
What is the clavicle?
The principal muscle involved in an action.
What is prime mover or agonist?
The muscle located on top of the frontal bone of the skull.
What is frontalis?
The anatomical terminology for chewing.
What is mastication?
The target motion direction of the quadratus lumborum.
What is lateral flexion?
The target is the scapula with the target motion being to retract and rotate inferiorly.
What is the rhomboid major or rhomboid minor?
The muscle that plays two important roles in muscle function: 1) maintain body or limb position, and 2) control rapid movement.
What is antagonist?
Decreases the angle of the joint.
What is flexor?
The insertion point for the semispinalis capitis.
What is the occipital bone?
The prime mover for the compression/expansion of the thoracic cavity.
What is the diaphragm?
The prime mover is the deltoid with the target being the humerus. The movement would be identified as this.
What is to lift the arms at the shoulders?
When a muscle has a widespread expansion over a sizeable area, but then the fascicles come to a single, common attachment point, the muscle is called this.
What is convergent?
An example of a muscle name that comes from the number of muscles in the group?
What is quadricep, bicep, or tricep?
The group of muscles that forms the majority of the muscle mass of the back and is the primary extensor for the vertebral column.
What is erector spinae group?
The large levator ani consists of these two muscles.
What is pubococcygeus and iliococcygeus?
The forearm is the origin of these muscles of the hand.
What are the extrinsic muscles?