Question

Naming Muscles

For each criteria list 2 examples from your list

Muscle Location: Location in body

Muscle Shape:

Relative Size:   (Maximus, Minimus, Brevis, Longus)

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Direction of Muscle Fibers: In relation to an imaginary line usually in the midline of the body or the longitudinal axis of a bone.

Number of Origins:

Location of Attachments: Named according to their points of origin and insertion

Muscle Action: (Flexor, Extensor, Abductor, Adductor)

Answer 1

Muscle Location:

Sternocleidomastoid - sternum; Clavicle - cleido; Mastoid process .

Muscle Shape:

Deltoid triangular),

Trapezius (trapezoid),

Serratus (saw‐toothed), and

Rhomboideus major (rhomboid)

Relative Size:   (Maximus, Minimus, Brevis, Longus)

Gluteus maximus -largest;

Gluteus medius - medium and

Gluteus minimus - smallest.

Direction of Muscle Fibers:

Vastus lateralis

Vastus medialis

Number of Origins:

Biceps,

Triceps, and

Qadriceps

Location of Attachments:

Frontalis.

Tibialis anterior

Muscle Action: (Flexor, Extensor, Abductor, Adductor)

Flexor carpi radialis

Extensor digitorum

Adductor longus