Head & Neck
Raises the eyebrows and wrinkles the forehead.
What is frontalis?
Interior abdominal muscles that help you bend and rotate.
What are internal obliques?
Medial side of each thigh and presses thighs together.
What are adductor muscles?
Flex and extend the elbow.
What are bicep brachii and tricep brachii?
A muscle with the major responsibility for a certain movement.
What is a prime mover?
Flattens cheek and holds food in while chewing.
What is buccinator?
Exterior abdominal muscles that go up and down.
What is rectus abdominis?
Plantar flexes and everts the foot.
What are fibularis muscles?
Flex and extend the knee.
What are hamstring and quadricep groups?
A muscle that opposes or reverses a prime mover.
What is an antagonist?
Synergist in closing the jaw.
What is temporalis?
Lower back muscles that extend and adduct the humerus.
What is latissimus dorsi?
Deep to the gastrocnemius, also a plantar flexor of the foot.
What is soleus?
Flex and extend the neck.
What are sternocleidomastoid and trapezius?
A muscle that aids a prime mover and helps prevent rotation.
What is a synergist?
They flex the neck when contracted.
What is sternocleidomastoid?
Made of 3 long muscles that help extend the vertebral column.
What is erector spinae?
Prime mover for hip flexion, keep from falling backwards.
What is iliopsoas?
Extend and flex the fingers.
What are extensor and flexor digitorum?
A muscle that stabilizes the origin of a prime mover.
What is a fixator?
Pulls the scalp posteriorly.
What is occipitalis?
Muscles that extend the head and are antagonistic to the sternocleidomastoid.
What is trapezius?
Most superficial muscle of the thigh, weak thigh flexor.
What is sartorius?
Abduction and adduction of shoulder.
What are deltoid and latissimus dorsi?
Muscle attachment to a moveable bone and an immovable bone (2 separate answers).
What are insertion and origin?