Muscle Facts
The correct number muscles that are in the body.
What is 640 muscles?
a large triangular muscle that covers the shoulder joint and serves to raise the arm laterally.
What is deltoid?
A pair of large triangular muscles extending over the back of the neck and shoulders and moving the head and shoulder blade.
What is trapezius?
A group of four muscles located at the front of your thigh that extends the knee and flexes the hip.
What are quadriceps?
The percentage of the body mass that muscles make up.
What is 40%?
A large muscle in the upper arm which turns the hand to face palm uppermost and flexes the arm and forearm.
What is biceps?
A pair of large, roughly triangular muscles covering the lower part of the back
What is latissimus dorsi?
A group of three muscles that run along the back of your thigh from your hip to just below your knee.
What are hamstrings?
The two different types of muscles
What are voluntary and involuntary muscles
Any of the muscles that connect the front walls of the chest with the bones of the upper arm and shoulder.
What is pectoralis major?
Located between the ribs and the pelvis on the front of the body. The abdominal muscles support the trunk, allow movement and hold organs in place by regulating internal abdominal pressure
What are abdominal muscles?
Calf muscle that produces flexion of the leg at the knee joint.
What is gastrocnemius?
The four functions of muscles.
What is
One of the muscles that forms the anterior abdominal wall. They help pull the chest downwards and compresses the abdominal cavity
What are external obliques?