The Muscular System (Ch. 9)
Axial Musculature (Ch. 10)
Muscles of the Pectoral Girdle and Upper Limbs (Ch. 11)
Muscles of the Pelvic Girdle and Lower Limbs (Ch. 11)
Surface Anatomy
Lab (Name)
Lab (Action)
100

Name for a bundle of muscle fibers

What is a Fascicle

100

This muscle, which is located between the ribs, depresses the ribs

 What is Internal intercostals

100

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

100

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)

100

Prominent feature of the hip you palpate to find the insertion of sartorius?

Anterior superior iliac spine

100


What is orbicularis oculi

100


What is close the jaw (mastication)

200

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)

200

Name the muscles of erector spinae from medial to lateral.

What is Spinalis, Longissimus, Iliocostalis

200

Name an antagonist to infraspinatus

Subscapularis, teres major (best answers); also acceptable… latissimus dorsi, pectoralis major, and deltoid

200

The most lateral muscle of the hamstrings

Biceps femoris

200

If someone is tense and needs a shoulder rub, this is the muscle you massage

What is Trapezius

200


What is Masseter 

200


What is Elevate rib cage (Inhale)

300

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 

300

Frontalis and occipitalis are separated by a collagenous sheet called what?

What is Galea aponeurotica (a.k.a epicranial aponeurosis)

300

Name 2 muscles that produce flexion at the elbow

Biceps brachii, brachialis, brachioradialis; also pronator teres

300

Name an antagonist to gastrocnemius

What is Tibialis anterior

300

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

300


What is semitendinosus 

300


Unlocks knee from full extension when flexion begins

400

Types of skeletal muscle fibers are large in diameter, use enormous amounts of ATP, and fatigue rapidly

What is Fast (or white) fibers

400

This muscle, which has two bellies, depresses the hyoid bone and larynx.

What is Omohyoid

400

Actions the rhomboids perform

Adduction and downward rotation of the scapula

400

Which muscles produce eversion of the foot and plantar flexion at the ankle?

Fibularis longus and brevis (a.k.a. peroneus)

400

The tendons of these two muscles come together to form the calcaneal tendon

What is Gastrocnemius and soleus

400


What is piriformis

400


  1. Prime Mover of arm ABduction 

  2. Three heads (flex/medially rotate & extend/laterally rotate)

500

Calcium ions bind to this during a muscle contraction

 What is Troponin

500

The inguinal ligament is the aponeurosis of which muscle?

External oblique

500

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.

500

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

500

If you are feeling for swollen submandibular lymph nodes, which division of the anterior cervical triangle are you palpating?

What is SHT (Suprahyoid triangle)

500


What is Extensor Carpi Ulnaris 

500


What is stabilize, raise, depresses, rotates, and retracts scapula/clavicle 

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