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Midterm Assessment Flashcards

1
Q

Name a muscle which has 2 origins?

A

Biceps

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2
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What do you call the largest muscle in a group?

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Maximum

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3
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What term describes fibres running parallel to the midline?

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Rectus

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4
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What action moves a bone closer to the midline?

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Adduction

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5
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What do you call the shortest muscle in a group?

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Brevis

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6
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What muscle is triangular in shape?

A

Deltoid

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7
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What carpal bone is found closest to the ulnar side of the wrist?

A

Pisiform

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8
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What type of bone is the patellar

A

Sesamoid bone

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9
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What the action of the extensor pollicis Longus?

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Extends the thumb

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10
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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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11
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What’s the action of the tricep?

A

Extends elbow

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12
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What the action of the opponens pollicis.

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Opposes thumb to fingers

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13
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What’s the action of the abductor digiti minimi

A

Abducts little finger

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14
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What’s the name of the hollow on the posterior surface of the knee?

A

Popliteal fossa

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15
Q

What muscle laterally rotates the femur?

A

Piriformis

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16
Q

What muscle flexes the hip joint?

A

Iliopsoas

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17
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What muscle braces the knee?

A

Iliotibial band or the tensor facia lata

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18
Q

What muscle flexes the knee?

A

Sartorius

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19
Q

How many phalanges make up the big toe?

A

2

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20
Q

How many phalanges are there in the hand

A

14

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21
Q

What nerve supplies the back of the leg?

A

Sciatic nerve

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22
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What nerve supplies the muscles of the anterior thigh?

A

Femoral nerve

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23
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What nerve supplies the adductors of the thigh?

A

Obturator nerve

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24
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How many vertebrae are there in the coccyx?

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4

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25
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What causes a muscle to contract?

A

Nervous stimulation

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26
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Name the tarsal bones

A

calcaneus, navicular, cuboid, medial cuneiform, lateral cuneiform, median cuneiform, talus

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27
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Which part of the muscles contract?

A

The belly

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28
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What muscles make up the quadriceps?

A

Rectus femoris, vastus medialis, vastus lateralis and vastus intermedius

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29
Q

What tendons border the anatomical snuff box?

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abductor pollicis longus, extensor pollicis brevis, extensor pollicis longus

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30
Q

Which side of the foot can you find your navicular bone?

A

Medial

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31
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What movement produces an upward motion?

A

Levator

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32
Q

The body is divided longitudinally through the midline into right and left
halves. What plane is this?

A

Median

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33
Q

The body is divided longitudinally into its
anterior (front) and posterior
(back) section. What plane is this?

A

Frontal

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34
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The body is divided cross-sectionally into
upper and lower parts. What plane is this?

A

Transverse

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35
Q

A term meaning further from the head?

A

Inferior

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36
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A term meaning closer to the head?

A

Superior

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37
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A term meaning behind?

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Posterior or dorsal

38
Q

A term meaning in front of?

A

Ventral or Anterior

39
Q

A term meaning to lie down facing up?

40
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A term to mean lie down facing down?

41
Q

A term to do describe a hollow

42
Q

A term to describe a curved surface of bone which forms part of a joint?

43
Q

A bony feature which is closely related to (on/above) a condyle

A

Epicondyle

44
Q

a bony feature which projects out from surrounding bone

A

Tuberosity

45
Q

A hole/channel through bone
(often forms the passage for blood vessels or nerves

46
Q

A tough tissue called fibrous connective tissue. They join bone to bone.

47
Q

Made from tough fibrous tissue. They always link muscle to bone and form the
point of the muscle origins and insertions.

48
Q

The fibres run parallel to the midline?

49
Q

The fibres run at right angles to the midline?

A

Transverse

50
Q

The fibres run diagonally to the midline.

51
Q

A muscle with 2 origins?

52
Q

A muscle with 3 origins?

53
Q

A muscle with 4 origins?

A

Quadriceps

54
Q

A triangular muscle?

55
Q

A trapezoid muscle?

56
Q

A diamond muscle?

57
Q

Name 2 ball and socket joints?

A

Hip and shoulder joints

58
Q

Name 2 hinge joints?

A

Knee and elbow joints

59
Q

Name 2 gliding joints?

A

Intacarpal and intatarsal joints

60
Q

Name a saddle joint?

A

between first metacarpal and trapezium

61
Q

Name a pivot joint?

A

Radio-ulnar joint

62
Q

Name a condyloid joint?

A

wrist joint or metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joint.

63
Q

Name a moveable joint?

A

Synovial joint

64
Q

Name a fixed joint?

65
Q

Name a slightly moveable joint

A

cartilaginous

66
Q

May be efferent (carrying
information away from the CNS to the bodily tissues or afferent (carrying information from the bodily tissues to
the CNS).

A

Peripheral nerves

67
Q

Name the carpal bones

A

Trapezium, trapezoid, capatate, hamate, scaphoid, lunate, triquitrum and pisiform

68
Q

Brachioradialis action?

A

Flexes the forearm

69
Q

What muscle flexes the elbow?

A

Brachialis

70
Q

What muscle extends the fingers?

A

Extensor digitorum

71
Q

What muscle abducts the fingers away from the midline?

A

Dorsal Interossei

72
Q

The fleshy part of Abductor Pollicis Brevis is also know as?

A

The thenar eminence

73
Q

The tough fibrous band on the palmar aspect of the wrist is called?

A

retinaculum

74
Q

cubital fossa is formed by what muscles?

A

flexors of the lower arm, the medial border of brachioradialis and the biceps tendon.

75
Q

Where can you feel the brachial artery?

A

Cubital crease (elbow crease)

76
Q

What artery’s supply the arms?

A

Brachial, radial and ulnar

77
Q

What spinal root supplies the arms?

A

C3-T2 spinal nerve roots

78
Q

What major nerves are there in the arms?

A

Median, ulnar and radial

79
Q

The olecranon is part of what bone?

80
Q

Where can you find the head of ulna?

A

At the wrist

81
Q

Where can you find the head of radius.

A

Elbow crease

82
Q

What is the joint that joins the clavicle to the scapular?

A

Acromioclavicular joint?

83
Q

What’s the action of the deltoid?

A

Abducts the arm

84
Q

What the action of the tricep?

A

Extension of the elbow and shoulder

85
Q

What’s the action of the bicep Brachi?

A

Flexion of the elbow

86
Q

What muscle are in the rotator cuff from top to bottom?

A

Supraspinatus, subscapularis Infraspinatus, Teres Minor

87
Q

What artery suppose the armpit and shoulder?

A

axillary artery

88
Q

What can we also call the armpit?

89
Q

Where can you find the cubital fossa

A

Inside of the elbow

90
Q

What’s the shelf of the calcaneus which
supports the talus?

A

Sustentaculum tali

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