Where is it located?
Triceps
What is the arm?
When a muscle is shorter and harder, it is ______.
What is contracted?
Biceps femoris
What is the hamstring muscle?
Moves the bone away from the midline
What is abductor?
True or False? There are over 650 muscles in the body.
What is true?
External oblique
What is the abdomen?
Movement that decreases the angle of a joint
What is flexion?
Largest of the gluteus muscles that extends the femur
What is the gluteus maximus?
Muscle whose contraction is responsible for producing a particular motion
What is an agonist?
The stomach is made of what kind of muscle?
What is smooth?
Gracilis
What is the thigh?
This muscle is the hardest working muscle.
What is cardiac?
Four muscles, that extend and stabilize the knee
What is the quadriceps femoris group?
Skeletal muscle that separates the thoracic and abdominal cavities and is dome-shaped at rest
What is the diaphragm?
True or False? It only takes a few years to build strong and healthy muscle.
What is false?
Gastrocnemius
What is the calf?
Lifts arm at the shoulder
What is the deltoid?
Muscle that stabilizes the upper part of the back
What is the trapezius?
Chewing
What is mastication?
The biceps brachii flexes the forearm, whereas the triceps brachii ________ it.
What is extends?
Sternocleidomastoid
What is the neck?
This muscle retracts the mandible
What is the temporalis?
Muscle that flexes the leg at the knee
What is the popliteus?
Muscle with an anterior fascicle that adducts, medially rotates and flexes the thigh, and a posterior fascicle that assists in thigh extension
What is adductor magnus?
These are the smallest muscles located in the body
What are the eyelids?