Card Set: Anatomy & Physiology Key Terms Muscular System

A&P Key Terms 11 The Muscular System

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61. external oblique superficial abdominal muscle with fascicles that extend inferiorly and medially
62. extrinsic eye muscles originate outside the eye and insert onto the outer surface of the white of the eye, and create eyeball movement
63. extrinsic muscles of the hand muscles that move the wrists, hands, and fingers and originate on the arm
64. fascicle muscle fibers bundled by perimysium into a unit
65. femoral triangle region formed at the junction between the hip and the leg and includes the pectineus, femoral nerve, femoral artery, femoral vein, and deep inguinal lymph nodes
66. fibularis brevis (also, peroneus brevis) muscle that plantar flexes the foot at the ankle and everts it at the intertarsal joints
67. fibularis longus (also, peroneus longus) muscle that plantar flexes the foot at the ankle and everts it at the intertarsal joints
68. fibularis tertius small muscle that is associated with the extensor digitorum longus
69. fixator synergist that assists an agonist by preventing or reducing movement at another joint, thereby stabilizing the origin of the agonist
70. flexion movement that decreases the angle of a joint
71. flexor carpi radialis muscle that flexes and abducts the hand at the wrist
72. flexor carpi ulnaris muscle that flexes and adducts the hand at the wrist
73. flexor digiti minimi brevis muscle that flexes the little finger
74. flexor digitorum longus muscle that flexes the four small toes
75. flexor digitorum profundus muscle that flexes the phalanges of the fingers and the hand at the wrist
76. flexor digitorum superficialis muscle that flexes the hand and the digits
77. flexor hallucis longus muscle that flexes the big toe
78. flexor pollicis brevis muscle that flexes the thumb
79. flexor pollicis longus muscle that flexes the distal phalanx of the thumb
80. flexor retinaculum band of connective tissue that extends over the palmar surface of the hand
81. flexor muscle that decreases the angle at the joint
82. frontalis front part of the occipitofrontalis muscle
83. fusiform muscle that has fascicles that are spindle-shaped to create large bellies
84. gastrocnemius most superficial muscle of the calf
85. genioglossus muscle that originates on the mandible and allows the tongue to move downward and forward
86. geniohyoid muscle that depresses the mandible, and raises and pulls the hyoid bone anteriorly
87. gluteal group muscle group that extends, flexes, rotates, adducts, and abducts the femur
88. gluteus maximus largest of the gluteus muscles that extends the femur
89. gluteus medius muscle deep to the gluteus maximus that abducts the femur at the hip
90. gluteus minimus smallest of the gluteal muscles and deep to the gluteus medius
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