Muscles Flashcards
What system covers, shapes, and supports the skeletal tissue?
Muscular system
_______ are fibrous tissues with the ability to stretch and contract according to the demands of the body’s movements. This system can contract and move various parts of the body. What system is it?
Muscular system
What is the prefix of Myo-/My
Muscle
The human body has over _______ muscles. Which is responsible for approximately __% of the body’s weight.
630, 40%
Out of the over 630 muscles, __ are facial muscles.
30
There are 3 types of muscle tissue. Name them.
Skeletal, smooth and cardiac
These voluntary muscles contract with conscious thought.
Skeletal muscle
These involuntary muscles are not under conscious control.
Smooth
These muscles are specific to heart function and are not under conscious control.
Cardiac muscles
A skeletal muscle has 3 parts. Name them.
Origin
Belly
Insertion
This is the more fixed part of the muscle closest to the skeleton, which flexed but remains stationary.
Origin
This is the middle part of the muscle
Belly
This is the part of the muscle that is the movable attachment and farthest from the skeleton.
Insertion
Pressure in massage is usually directed from the ______ to the ______.
Insertion to the origin
Muscle tissue can be positively influenced during an esthetic treatment by: 5 methods. What are they?
Massage
Electric therapy current
Light rays
Dry heat
Moist heat
There are 4 muscles of the scalp. Name them
Frontalis
Occipitalis
Temporalis (2)
This muscle is the scalp muscle that raises the eyebrows, draws the scalp forward and causes wrinkles in the forehead
Frontalis
This muscle is the back of the epicranius, is the muscle that draws the scalp backward.
Occipitalis
This tendon connects the Frontalis and Occipitalis
Aponeurosis
There are 3 muscles to the eyebrow. What are they?
Corrugator
Orbicularis Oculi
Levator palpebrae superioris muscle
The corrugator and the procerus together are called the
Glabella
The glabella are muscles that are often injected with
Botox
What muscle is located beneath the Frontalis and orbicularis oculi? It draws the eyebrow down in wrinkles the forehead vertically.
Corrugator
What is the ring muscle of the eye socket? It closes the eyes
Orbicularis Oculi
What muscle controls the eyelid and can easily be damaged during make up application?
Levator palpebrae superioris muscle
The nose has 2 main muscles. What are they?
Procerus & nasalis
What muscle lowers the eyebrows and causes wrinkles across the bridge of the nose?
Procerus
What is a two-part muscle that covers the nose and includes the transverse part and the alar part, which flare the nostrils?
Nasalis
The eight main muscles of the mouth are?
Buccinator
Triangularis aka depressor anguli oris
Mentalis
Orbicularis Oris
Levator anguli oris
Risorius
Levator labii superioris aka quadratus labii superioris
Zygomaticus
What is the thin, flat muscle of the cheek between the upper and lower jaw that compresses the cheeks and expels air between the lips, as in blowing a whistle?
Buccinator
What is the muscle extending alongside the chin that pulls down the corners of the mouth? Also known as?
Triangularis aka depressor anguli oris
What is the muscle that elevates the lower lip and raises and wrinkles the skin of the chin?
Mentalis
What is the flat band around the upper and lower lips that compresses, contracts, puckers, and wrinkles the lips?
Orbicularis Oris
What is a muscle associated with smiling?
Levator Anguli Oris
What is the muscle that draws the corners of the mouth out and back when grinning?
Risorius
What is a muscle associated with lifting the wings of the nose and upper lip? Also know as? It can be called a snarl.
Levator Labii Superioris aka Quadratus Labii Superioris
What major and minor are muscles, extending from the zygomatic bone to the angle of the mouth that elevates the lip as in laughing?
Zygomaticus
What two main muscles are used for masticating?
Masseter and Temporalis
What are the three muscles of the ear?
What is the function?
Anterior Auricularis
Auricularis superior
Auricularis posterior
They work together to move the ear front, up and back
The two muscles of the neck are?
Platysma and Sternocleidomastoid (SCM)
What is a broad muscle extending from the chest and shoulder muscles to the side of the chin it is responsible for lowering the lower jaw and lip?
Platysma
What is the muscle extending alongside the neck from the ear to the collarbone? It acts to rotate the head from side to side and up and down
Sternocleidomastoid (SCM)
What 3 muscle is attached to the arm?
Latissimus Dorsi
Pectoralis major and minor
What is a large flat, triangular muscle that covers the lower back?
Latissimus Dorsi
What are muscles of the chest that assist in swinging movements of the arm?
Pectoralis major and minor
What are the four muscles of the shoulder and arm?
Trapezius
Biceps
Deltoid
Triceps
What muscle covers the back of the neck, shoulders and upper/middle region of the back shrugs shoulders and stabilizes the scapula?
Trapezius
What produce the contour of the front and inner side of the upper arm, they lift the forearm, flex the elbow, and turn the palms outward?
Biceps (2)
What is a large triangular muscle covering the shoulder joint that allows the arm to extend outward and to the side of the body?
Deltoid
What is a large muscle that covers the entire back of the upper arm and extends the forearm?
Triceps
What muscles that draw a body part such as a finger arm or toe away from the midline of the body or of an extremity? Separates.
Abduction
What muscle that draw a body part such as a finger arm or toe inward toward the median access of the body or of an extremity? Together.
Adduction
What is when muscles move to pull the body, part toward the core of the body, such as when the biceps of the arm are activated toward the body.
Flexion
What is when muscles straighten? When the rest hand and fingers form a straight line, for example.
Extension.
What is when muscles turn inward for example when the palm faces downward
Pronate
What is when muscles rotate? For example, in the forearm, the radius turns out word in the palm upward.
Supinate
