Anatomical Terminology
When abducting the arm to catch a baseball, the motion of the arm occurs in this plane.
What is the frontal or coronal plane?
Oral preparatory, oral transit, pharyngeal, and esophageal stage.
What are the stages of swallowing/eating?
This muscle flexes and radially deviates the wrist.
What is the flexor carpi radialis.
This muscle flexes digits 2-5 at the MCP and PIP joints.
What is the flexor digitorum superficialis.
These four muscles make up the quadriceps.
What are the rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, vastus intermedius, and vastus medialis.
This plane of movement divides the body into inferior and superior portions.
What is the transverse plane?
Iliocostalis, Longissimus, and spinalis.
What are the erector spinae muscles?
This muscle is the primary extensor of the elbow.
What is the triceps brachii?
The dorsal forearm muscles are affected and can no longer extend the wrist causing "wrist drop".
What is a radial nerve injury?
Of the two plantar flexor muscles that make up the triceps surae, this muscle does not cross the knee joint.
What is the soleus.
The head is _________ to the trunk.
What is superior?
These muscles flex and rotate the trunk.
What are the internal and external oblique muscles?
Supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor, subscapularis.
What are the rotator cuff muscles?
C5, C6, C7, C8, and T1
What nerve roots make up the brachial plexus?
Tightness of this muscle would be the most likely to contribute to compression of the sciatic nerve.
What is the piriformis?
Anatomically speaking, proximal refers to a structure _________ to the trunk.
What is closer?
The primary purpose of mimetic muscles.
What is express emotion?
Scaphoid, lunate, triquetrum, and pisiform.
What is the proximal row of carpal bones?
This nerve innervates the flexors of the elbow (biceps, brachialis, and coracobrachialis)
What is the musculocutaneous nerve?
Foot drop results from injury to this nerve.
What is the fibular nerve?
Another term for volar.
What is ventral?
This vertebral region supports the majority of the compressive load of the spine.
What is the lumbar region?
Tendonosis of the Extensor Pollicis Brevis and Abductor Pollicis Longus.
What is DeQuervain's Syndrome?
Injury to this nerve results in the classic, Hand of Benediction.
What is the median nerve?
Maintaining strength in this muscle group is most important to promote safe transfers in the older adult population.
What are the quadriceps?