Bones
The thigh bone.
What is the femur?
The knee joint.
What is the tibiofemoral joint?
Number of hip muscles.
What is 17?
The projection on the distal end of the tibia that forms a protrusion on the medial side of the ankle.
What is the medial malleolus?
The two major nerves to the lower extremities are?
What are the sciatic and femoral nerves?
Non-weight bearing bone in the lower leg.
What is the fibula?
Joint where the patella and femur meet at the front of the knee.
What is the patellofemoral joint?
What are the gastrocnemius, soleus and plantaris muscles?
The large, upper portion of the coxal bone.
What is the ilium?
The superior gluteal never is divided into what?
What are superior and inferior branches?
The bones found in the ankle.
What are tarsals?
Joint located between the talus and calcaneus bones of the foot.
What is the subtalar joint?
Number of muscles in the foot.
What is 20?
Rough process that is located at the front of the tibia and is the attachment location for the quadriceps tendon.
What is the tibial tiberosity?
Two muscles supplied by the inferior gluteal nerve.
What are the piriformis and gluteus maximus?
Toe bones that articulate with metatarsals.
What are proximal phalanges?
The type of joint located in the knee.
What is a hinge synovial joint?
Function of the gastrocnemius muscle.
What is to flex and extend the foot, ankle and knee?
Location of the vastus lateralis.
What is the outside of the thigh?
The sciatic nerve supplies blood to what muscles in the lower leg? Name 3.
What are the
-gastrocnemius
-soleus
-plantaris
-popliteus
-tibialis posterior
-flexor hallucis longus
-flexor digitorum longus
Tarsal bone that articulates with the first metatarsal.
What is the first cuneiform?
Intertarsal joints, the joint type of this joint is?
What are plane synovial joints?
The longest tendon in the body.
What is the plantaris muscle?
The deepest muscle of the posterior knee.
What is the popliteus muscle?
The common peroneal nerve supplies what two muscles?
What are the anterior peroneal muscle and the short head of the biceps femoris?