Muscles
The general action of the muscles of the posterior compartment.
What is flexion of the knee?
Where the femoral artery changes names to the popliteal artery.
What is the adductor hiatus?
This nerve exits the pelvis through greater sciatic foramen, usually inferior to piriformis m. and travels inferiorly through the posterior thigh compartment.
What is the sciatic nerve?
The distal exit of the adductor canal.
What is the adductor hiatus?
The joint intermediate to the leg and the foot regions.
What is the ankle joint?
The muscles in the superficial layer of the posterior compartment.
What is the long head of biceps femurs m. and semitendinosus m.?
The anastomosis that the popliteal a. contributes too.
What is the genicular anastomosis?
This this nerve is palpable at a location.
What is the fibular head?
The inferior medal border of the popliteal fossa.
What is the medial head of the gastrocnemius m.?
Bringing the dorsal of the foot closer to the anterior surface of the leg.
What is dorsiflexion.
The origin of the semimebranosus m. (be specific)
What is the posterosuperolateral part of the ischial tuberosity?
The artery that the descending branch of the lateral femoral circumflex a. anastomosis with.
What is the superior lateral vehicular a.?
The components of this nerve is VDVR L-4, L-5, S-1 & S-2.
What is the tibial n.?
The functional end arteries to both heads of the gastrocnemius m.
What are the rural arteries?
Combination of dorsiflexion, abduction, and eversion.
What is pronation?
The muscle who's tendon can be palpate at the posteromedial knee region.
what is the semitendinosus m.?
An unpaired artery named genicular.
What is the middle genicular a.?
This nerve travels deep to the long head of the biceps femurs m., to the superior edge of the popliteal fossa.
What is the sciatic n.?
The vessels that combine to form the popliteal vein.
Was is the vena commitantes of the leg?
The accessory sesamoid located within the tendon of peroneus breves at its insertion.
what is os vesalianum?
The muscle in the posterior compartment whose sole action is to flex and laterally rotate the leg.
What is the short head of biceps femoris m.?
Artery that enters the anterior compartment of the leg by passing through the superior opening of the interosseous membrane.
What is the anterior tibial a.?
This nerve is the only nerve of the posterior compartment that is not a branch of sciatic.
What is the posterior femoral cutaneous n.?
The three names of the narrow facial tunnel located deep to the sartorious m.
what is the adductor canal/subsartorial canal/Hunter's canal?
The age at which tibiofibular torsion reaches its adult value.
What is 6 years old?