Body Movements
Supination is synonymous with this action.
What is palms up?
This bone is known to have many neck muscles attached to it.
What is the hyoid bone?
This muscle has two heads (long and short) in the antebrachial region.
What is the Biceps Brachii?
What is the smallest structure in muscle tissue?
What are myofilaments?
This joint binds bones that use dense connective tissue.
What is the fibrous joint?
This body movement is defined as away from the midline.
What is Abduction?
This superficial head muscle is located on the temporal bone.
This muscle is known to be on top of the clavicle.
What is the Supraspinatus?
The connection point between a motor neuron and a muscle fiber.
What is the neuromuscular junction?
This characteristic of the synovial joint contains two layers (synovial membrane and fiborus layer).
What is the articular capsule?
Decreasing the angle between the ulna and the humerus is an example of this body movement.
What is flexion?
This muscle is the most superficial lateral muscle in the abdominal region.
What is the external oblique?
The Iliopsoas muscle is composed of these two muscles.
What are the Iliacus and Psoas Major.
These type of bands are comprised of only actin.
What are I bands?
This ring of cartilage around the acetabulum is located around the hip joint.
What is the acetabular labrum?
Plantarflexion at the ankle is an example of this type of movement.
What is extension?
This superficial lateral muscle located deep from the pectoralis major holds the scapula to the chest wall and rotates scapula.
What is the serratus anterior?
This flexor muscle is located on the lateral side of the antebrachial region.
What is the flexor carpi radialis?
This muscle fiber structure is made up of 1 A band and 2 different halves of different I bands that contracts when moving muscles.
What is the sarcomere?
This ligament attaches to the coracoid process and the humerus that wraps for support in the shoulder.
Inversion and Eversion are both body movements that turn this body part either towards or away from the midline.
What is the sole?
This inferior small muscle of the face, located in the mental region, wrinkles the chin and protrudes the lower lip.
What is the mentalis?
The Quadriceps Femoris is comprised of these four muscles.
What are the rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, vastus medius, and vastus intermedius?
What is calcuim (Ca2+)?
These intracapsular ligaments cross (cruci = cross) in the notch between the femoral condyles.
What are the anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments?