Muscular System

Question 1

Adductors

Answer 1

It is an important group of muscles located on your inner thighs that serve to bring your legs toward the center of your body.

Question 2

Biceps brachii

Answer 2

They are large, thick muscles on the ventral portion of the upper arm.

Question 3

Biceps femoris

Answer 3

They are long muscles in the posterior compartment of the thigh that is responsible for movement at both the hip and knee joints.

Question 4

Buccinators

Answer 4

They are muscles that play an active role along with the orbicularis oris and superior constrictor muscle during swallowing, mastication, blowing, and sucking.

Question 5

Deltoid

Answer 5

They are muscles in your shoulder, which is the ball-and-socket joint that connects your arm to the trunk of your body.

Question 6

Extensors

Answer 6

They are muscles whose contraction extends or straightens a limb or other part of the body.

Question 7

External intercostals

Answer 7

They are small muscles located in between each rib, starting at the first rib and extending down to the 11th rib.

Question 8

External oblique

Answer 8

It is a muscle situated on the lateral and anterior parts of the abdomen.

Question 9

Fibularis longus

Answer 9

It is a superficial muscle in the lateral compartment of the leg.

Question 10

Flexors

Answer 10

It is a muscle that flexes a joint.

Question 11

Frontalis

Answer 11

It is a muscle responsible for elevating the eyebrows.

Question 12

Gastrocnemius

Answer 12

It is the chief muscle of the calf of the leg, which flexes the knee and foot. It runs to the Achilles tendon from two heads attached to the femur.

Question 13

Gluteus maximus

Answer 13

It is any of three muscles in each buttock that move the thigh, the largest of which is the gluteus maximus.

Question 14

Gluteus medius

Answer 14

It is a muscle lying between the gluteus maximus and gluteus minimus.

Question 15

Internal oblique

Answer 15

It is a muscle found on the lateral side of the abdomen.

Question 16

Latissimus dorsi

Answer 16

It is a broad, flat muscle that occupies the majority of the lower posterior thorax.

Question 17

Masseter

Answer 17

It is a muscle that runs through the rear part of the cheek from the temporal bone to the lower jaw on each side and closes the jaw in chewing.

Question 18

Orbicularis oculi

Answer 18

It is a muscle located in the eyelids.

Question 19

Orbicularis oris

Answer 19

It is a multi-layered muscle that attaches through a thin, superficial musculoaponeurotic system to the dermis of the upper lip and lower lip and serves as an attachment site for many other facial muscles around the oral region.

Question 20

Pectoralis major

Answer 20

It is the superior most and largest muscle of the anterior chest wall.

Question 21

Rectus abdominus

Answer 21

They are the muscles that make up the top layer of your abdominal muscles, commonly referred to as your “six-pack.”

Question 22

Rectus femoris

Answer 22

It is a muscle that flexes the hip along with the sartorius and iliopsoas and extends the lower leg at the knee, working in conjunction with the other three quadriceps muscles.

Question 23

Sartorius

Answer 23

It is the longest muscle in the body, spanning both the hip and the knee joints.

Question 24

Semimembranosus

Answer 24

It is the most medial of the three hamstring muscles in the thigh.

Question 25

Semitendinosus

Answer 25

It is a fusiform muscle of the posterior compartment of the thigh.

Question 26

Soleus

Answer 26

It is a large muscle on the back of your lower leg.

Question 27

Sternocleidomastoid

Answer 27

It is the most superficial and largest muscle in the front portion of the neck.

Question 28

Temporalis

Answer 28

It is a large muscle in the temporal fossa that serves to raise the lower jaw.

Question 29

Tibialis anterior

Answer 29

It is the largest of four muscles in the anterior compartment of the leg.

Question 30

Trapezius

Answer 30

It is a large superficial back muscle that resembles a trapezoid.

Question 31

Triceps brachii

Answer 31

It is a large, thick muscle on the dorsal part of the upper arm.

Question 32

Vastus lateralis

Answer 32

It is a unipennate muscle and a member of the anterior compartment of the thigh.

Question 33

Vastus medialis

Answer 33

It is one of the four muscles that make up the quadriceps group of muscles.

Question 34

Zygomaticus

Answer 34

It is a muscle of the human body that extends from each zygomatic arch (cheekbone) to the corners of the mouth.

Question 35

Quadriceps

Answer 35

It is a group of muscles at the front of your thigh.

Question 36

Hamstring

Answer 36

They are tendons (strong bands of tissue) at the back of the thighs that attach the large thigh muscle to the bone.