Name for a bundle of muscle fibers
What is a Fascicle
This muscle, which is located between the ribs, depresses the ribs
What is Internal intercostals
This muscle originates anteriorly on ribs 1-8 and inserts on the anterior surface of the vertebral border of the scapula. It protracts the shoulder.
What is Serratus anterior
These two muscles are the powerful flexors of the hip that pass deep to the inguinal ligament
Psoas major and iliacus (a.k.a. iliopsoas)
Prominent feature of the hip you palpate to find the insertion of sartorius?
Anterior superior iliac spine
What is orbicularis oculi
What is close the jaw (mastication)
Chemical communication between a synaptic terminal of the neuron and a skeletal muscle fiber occurs at this site
What is an Neuromuscular synapse (a.k.a. myoneural junction or neuromuscular junction)
Name the muscles of erector spinae from medial to lateral.
What is Spinalis, Longissimus, Iliocostalis
Name an antagonist to infraspinatus
Subscapularis, teres major (best answers); also acceptable… latissimus dorsi, pectoralis major, and deltoid
The most lateral muscle of the hamstrings
Biceps femoris
If someone is tense and needs a shoulder rub, this is the muscle you massage
What is Trapezius
What is Masseter
What is Elevate rib cage (Inhale)
Describe the Sliding Filament theory (HIA band, Z line, Zone overlap) *during contraction
HI- goes bye (smaller)
A- same
Z-lines get closer
Zone of overlap gets bigger
Frontalis and occipitalis are separated by a collagenous sheet called what?
What is Galea aponeurotica (a.k.a epicranial aponeurosis)
Name 2 muscles that produce flexion at the elbow
Biceps brachii, brachialis, brachioradialis; also pronator teres
Name an antagonist to gastrocnemius
What is Tibialis anterior
Name the transverse bands of fibrous tissue that cause a fit person to have what we call a six pack
What is tendinous inscriptions of the rectus abdominis muscle
What is semitendinosus
Unlocks knee from full extension when flexion begins
Types of skeletal muscle fibers are large in diameter, use enormous amounts of ATP, and fatigue rapidly
What is Fast (or white) fibers
This muscle, which has two bellies, depresses the hyoid bone and larynx.
What is Omohyoid
Actions the rhomboids perform
Adduction and downward rotation of the scapula
Which muscles produce eversion of the foot and plantar flexion at the ankle?
Fibularis longus and brevis (a.k.a. peroneus)
The tendons of these two muscles come together to form the calcaneal tendon
What is Gastrocnemius and soleus
What is piriformis
Prime Mover of arm ABduction
Three heads (flex/medially rotate & extend/laterally rotate)
Calcium ions bind to this during a muscle contraction
What is Troponin
The inguinal ligament is the aponeurosis of which muscle?
External oblique
Name the two origins of the Biceps Brachii
The short head originates from the apex of the coracoid process of the scapula. The long head originates from the supraglenoid tubercle of the scapula.
An athlete has experienced a pulled groin, these muscles may have been torn (there are 5) name four
Pectineus* (the groin muscle), adductor magnus, adductor brevis, adductor longus, or gracilis
If you are feeling for swollen submandibular lymph nodes, which division of the anterior cervical triangle are you palpating?
What is SHT (Suprahyoid triangle)
What is Extensor Carpi Ulnaris
What is stabilize, raise, depresses, rotates, and retracts scapula/clavicle