Muscles of the Body Flashcards
Lab & Written
Obicularis Oculi
O: Round muscle around the eye
A: Closing the eye
Obicularis Oris
Round muscle around the lips
A: Lip pursing
Frontalis
O: Attached to the frontal lobe
A: raises eyebrows
Buccinator
Underneath eyes and masseter
A: pulls cheeks in (fish face).
Zygomaticus
O:Attached to the zygomatic bone
A: Pulls up corners of your mouth (smile)
Depressor labii inferiors
V below the lower lip
A: Pulls the lower lip down
Temporalis
O: Temporal bone
I: Mandible
A: Closing the mouth + pulling the mandible back
Masseter
big muscle posterior jaw that runs up + down,
I: Mandible
A: raises mandible, most important for chewing in humans, pulls mandible forward
Sternocleidomastoid
Big muscle in the neck going at an angle
O: Sternum
I: Temporal bone
A: flexes neck - if one contracts the neck is pulled to the side
Platysma
Flat muscle in front of the neck, on top of the sternocleidomastoid
A: pulls down corners of lips (chinz face)
Pectoralis Major
O: Pones of the chest
I: Lateral end of humerus
A: Adducts & flexes arm
Pectoralis minor
A: Stabilizes the scapula
External Intercostal Muscles
O: Ribs 1-11
I: Immediately below the origin
A: Expanding the rib cage to breathe
Internal Intercostal Muscles
O: Ribs 1-11 costal cartilage
I: Immediately below the origin
A: Pull ribs together, contract rib cage, breathe out
Serratus anterior
A: Pulls the scapula towards the ribs
Rectus abdominis
A: flexes torso/abdomen,
contracts abdominal cavity (for) - defecation, childbirth, breathing out
Transverse abdominis
A: Contracts the abdominal cavity for rotation
External oblique
Up from midline towards back of ribs
A: Flexion, rotation, lateral flex
Internal obliques
down from midline towards iliac crest
A: Flexion, rotation, lateral flex, structural support
Trapezius
O: Processes of vertebrae
I: Scapula and occipital
A: Pulls the scapula down + in
* Extends the neck
* Antagonist to sternocleido mastoid
Latissimus Dorsi
I: Anterior of the humerus
A: Adduction of the arm at shoulder - like pec maj
* Extends arm (pulls back) - antagonist
Pulling down