Muscular System

Question 1

What are the functions of the muscular system?

Answer 1

• Movement
• Posture
• Muscular movement squeezes the blood and lymph vessels
• Muscular activity produces heat in cellular tissues

Question 2

Muscle at the base of the back of the cranium

Answer 2

Occipitalis

Question 3

Muscle over the forehead

Answer 3

Frontalis

Question 4

Muscle at the side of the head stretching to the mandible

Answer 4

Temporalis

Question 5

Muscle between the brows, extending down to the nasal bone.

Answer 5

Procerus

Question 6

Muscle between the eyebrows

Answer 6

Corrugator

Question 7

Muscle surrounds the eye socket

Answer 7

Orbicularis oculi

Question 8

Muscle crosses the bridge of the nose

Answer 8

Nasalis

Question 9

Muscle surrounds the mouth

Answer 9

Orbicularis oris

Question 10

Muscle runs from the side of mouth

Answer 10

Risorius

Question 11

Muscle at the sides of the cheek

Answer 11

Buccinator

Question 12

Muscle along the zygomatic bone/cheek

Answer 12

Zygomatic major/minor

Question 13

Muscle over the centre of the chin

Answer 13

Mentalis

Question 14

One each side from the mouth over the mandible

Answer 14

Triangularis

Question 15

From the chin down the front and sides of the neck

Answer 15

Platysma

Question 16

One each side of the neck running from the back of the ear to the sternum

Answer 16

Sternocleidomastoid

Question 17

A large diamond shaped muscle which extends from the occipital bone to the vertebra in the thoracic region and across the top of the shoulders

Answer 17

Trapezius

Question 18

Lies over the shoulder (like a shoulder pad)

Answer 18

Deltoid

Question 19

Back of the neck between the cervical vertebra and the scapula

Answer 19

Levator scapula

Question 20

Front of the chest, lies under the breast tissue

Answer 20

Pectoralis major

Question 21

Smaller than the pectoralis major, it lies beneath it on the front of the chest

Answer 21

Pectoralis minor

Question 22

Anterior upper arm

Answer 22

Biceps

Question 23

Posterior upper arm

Answer 23

Triceps