muscular system

Question 1

adductors

Answer 1

main function is to adduct the thigh and it is innervated by the obturator nerve

Question 2

biceps brachii

Answer 2

long fusiform muscle of the upper arm on the anterior surface of the humerus

Question 3

biceps femoris

Answer 3

flexes the leg and rotates it laterally and extends the thigh

Question 4

buccinators

Answer 4

thin broad muscle forming the wall of the cheek and serving to compress the cheek against the teeth and to retract the angle of the mouth

Question 5

deltoid

Answer 5

located on the uppermost part of the arm and the top of the shoulder

Question 6

extensors

Answer 6

contraction extends or stretches a body part

Question 7

external intercostals

Answer 7

Any of the muscles with their origin from the lower border of a rib

Question 8

external oblique

Answer 8

is the largest and the most superficial of the three flat muscles of the lateral anterior abdomen

Question 9

fibularis longus

Answer 9

lateral compartment of the leg, and acts to evert and plantarflex the ankle

Question 10

flexors

Answer 10

serving to bend a body part

Question 11

frontalis

Answer 11

muscle which covers parts of the skull

Question 12

gastrocnemius

Answer 12

a very powerful superficial bipennate muscle that is in the back part of the lower leg

Question 13

gluteus maximus

Answer 13

the main extensor muscle of the hip

Question 14

gluteus medius

Answer 14

situated on the outer surface of the pelvis

Question 15

internal oblique

Answer 15

a muscle in the abdominal wall that lies below the external oblique and just above the transverse abdominal muscles

Question 16

latissimus dorsi

Answer 16

extends, adducts, and rotates the arm medially and draws the shoulder downward and backward

Question 17

masseter

Answer 17

plays a major role in the chewing of solid foods