Muscular System

Terms

100

Bring to the body

Flexion

200

Move away from the body

Extension

300

What percentage of body weight is muscle?

40%

400

The word for when a muscle fibers are at work

Contraction

500

These run parallel to bones

Muscle Fibers

Upper body

100

Lower back, pulls arm back to body

Latissimuss dorsi

200

Back of arm, extends elbow

Tricep

300

Moves head up and down

Trapezius

400

Located in chest, raises arms

Pectoralis major

500

Front of neck, turns head left/right

sternomastoid

Lower body

100

a muscle group consisting of four muscles that is located along the front of the thigh

Quadriceps

200

Inside thigh, adds the leg to the body

Adductors

300

Shin, flexes foot, toes up

Soleus

400

Calf muscle, extends foot

Gastrocnemius

500

Muscles that runs straight from hip to knee

Rectus

Lower body continued

100

Stomach muscles

Abdominals

200

Rear muscles, extends hip

Gluteals

300

"S" shaped muscle in the quads

Sartorius

400

Outside thigh, pulls leg away

Abductors

500

Explain what the hamstrings do and where they are located using anatomical terms

Flex the knee, posterior thigh

Extra

100

# of muscles in body

600

200

What muscle goes from the lateral hip to medial knee?

Sartorius

300

Main function of muscles

Movement

400

How many muscles make up the gluteals?

3

500

Name all 7 muscles we learned in the legs

Rectus, Sartorius, Abductors, Adductors, Hamstrings, Soleus, Gastrocnemius