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1
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Name a muscle which has 2 origins?

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Biceps

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What do you call the largest muscle in a group?

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Maximum

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What term describes fibres running parallel to the midline?

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Rectus

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What action moves a bone closer to the midline?

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Adduction

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What do you call the shortest muscle in a group?

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Brevis

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What muscle is triangular in shape?

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Deltoid

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What carpal bone is found closest to the ulnar side of the wrist?

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Pisiform

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What type of bone is the patellar

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Sesamoid bone

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What the action of the extensor pollicis Longus?

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Extends the thumb

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What’s the action of the extensor carpi Ulnaris?

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Extends the ulnar side of the wrist

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What’s the action of the tricep?

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Extends elbow

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What the action of the opponens pollicis.

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Opposes thumb to fingers

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What’s the action of the abductor digiti minimi

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Abducts little finger

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What’s the name of the hollow on the posterior surface of the knee?

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Popliteal fossa

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What muscle laterally rotates the femur?

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Piriformis

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What muscle flexes the hip joint?

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Iliopsoas

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What muscle braces the knee?

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Iliotibial band or the tensor facia lata

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What muscle flexes the knee?

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Sartorius

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19
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How many phalanges make up the big toe?

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2

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20
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How many phalanges are there in the hand

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14

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What nerve supplies the back of the leg?

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Sciatic nerve

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What nerve supplies the muscles of the anterior thigh?

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Femoral nerve

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What nerve supplies the adductors of the thigh?

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Obturator nerve

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How many vertebrae are there in the coccyx?

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4

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What causes a muscle to contract?
Nervous stimulation
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Name the tarsal bones
calcaneus, navicular, cuboid, medial cuneiform, lateral cuneiform, median cuneiform, talus
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Which part of the muscles contract?
The belly
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What muscles make up the quadriceps?
Rectus femoris, vastus medialis, vastus lateralis and vastus intermedius
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What tendons border the anatomical snuff box?
abductor pollicis longus, extensor pollicis brevis, extensor pollicis longus
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Which side of the foot can you find your navicular bone?
Medial
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What movement produces an upward motion?
Levator
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The body is divided longitudinally through the midline into right and left halves. What plane is this?
Median
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The body is divided longitudinally into its anterior (front) and posterior (back) section. What plane is this?
Frontal
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The body is divided cross-sectionally into upper and lower parts. What plane is this?
Transverse
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A term meaning further from the head?
Inferior
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A term meaning closer to the head?
Superior
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A term meaning behind?
Posterior or dorsal
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A term meaning in front of?
Ventral or Anterior
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A term meaning to lie down facing up?
Supine
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A term to mean lie down facing down?
Prone
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A term to do describe a hollow
Fossa
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A term to describe a curved surface of bone which forms part of a joint?
Condyle
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A bony feature which is closely related to (on/above) a condyle
Epicondyle
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a bony feature which projects out from surrounding bone
Tuberosity
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A hole/channel through bone (often forms the passage for blood vessels or nerves
Foramen
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A tough tissue called fibrous connective tissue. They join bone to bone.
Ligaments
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Made from tough fibrous tissue. They always link muscle to bone and form the point of the muscle origins and insertions.
Tendons
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The fibres run parallel to the midline?
Rectus
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The fibres run at right angles to the midline?
Transverse
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The fibres run diagonally to the midline.
Oblique
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A muscle with 2 origins?
Bicep
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A muscle with 3 origins?
Tricep
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A muscle with 4 origins?
Quadriceps
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A triangular muscle?
Deltoid
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A trapezoid muscle?
Trapezium
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A diamond muscle?
Rhomboid
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Name 2 ball and socket joints?
Hip and shoulder joints
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Name 2 hinge joints?
Knee and elbow joints
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Name 2 gliding joints?
Intacarpal and intatarsal joints
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Name a saddle joint?
between first metacarpal and trapezium
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Name a pivot joint?
Radio-ulnar joint
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Name a condyloid joint?
wrist joint or metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joint.
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Name a moveable joint?
Synovial joint
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Name a fixed joint?
fibrous
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Name a slightly moveable joint
cartilaginous
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May be efferent (carrying information away from the CNS to the bodily tissues or afferent (carrying information from the bodily tissues to the CNS).
Peripheral nerves
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Name the carpal bones
Trapezium, trapezoid, capatate, hamate, scaphoid, lunate, triquitrum and pisiform
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Brachioradialis action?
Flexes the forearm
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What muscle flexes the elbow?
Brachialis
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What muscle extends the fingers?
Extensor digitorum
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What muscle abducts the fingers away from the midline?
Dorsal Interossei
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The fleshy part of Abductor Pollicis Brevis is also know as?
The thenar eminence
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The tough fibrous band on the palmar aspect of the wrist is called?
retinaculum
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cubital fossa is formed by what muscles?
flexors of the lower arm, the medial border of brachioradialis and the biceps tendon.
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Where can you feel the brachial artery?
Cubital crease (elbow crease)
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What artery’s supply the arms?
Brachial, radial and ulnar
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What spinal root supplies the arms?
C3-T2 spinal nerve roots
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What major nerves are there in the arms?
Median, ulnar and radial
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The olecranon is part of what bone?
Ulna
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Where can you find the head of ulna?
At the wrist
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Where can you find the head of radius.
Elbow crease
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What is the joint that joins the clavicle to the scapular?
Acromioclavicular joint?
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What’s the action of the deltoid?
Abducts the arm
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What the action of the tricep?
Extension of the elbow and shoulder
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What’s the action of the bicep Brachi?
Flexion of the elbow
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What muscle are in the rotator cuff from top to bottom?
Supraspinatus, subscapularis Infraspinatus, Teres Minor
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What artery suppose the armpit and shoulder?
axillary artery
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What can we also call the armpit?
Axilla
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Where can you find the cubital fossa
Inside of the elbow
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What’s the shelf of the calcaneus which supports the talus?
Sustentaculum tali

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