Vetebral Muscle

Question 1

What are hypaxial muscles?

Answer 1

ventral muscles - arms and legs, abdominal walls, intercostal muscles, found on back but don’t move back

Question 2

What is epaxial muscles?

Answer 2

dorsal muscles - move vertebral column

Question 3

What is the position of minor muscles in relation to major muscles?

Answer 3

Minor muscles are almost always on top of major muscles

Question 4

What are intrinsic muscles?

Answer 4

true back muscles (they move the back); superficial, intermediate, deep

Question 5

What is splenius capitas?

Answer 5

bandage shaped muscle that attached to the head from the spine

Question 6

What is illiocostalis?

Answer 6

most lateral spinal back muscle (have sections lumborum, thoracis, cervis)

Question 7

What is longissimus?

Answer 7

second most lateral spinal back muscle (have sections lumborum, thoracis, cervis)

Question 8

What is spinalis?

Answer 8

third most lateral spinal back muscle (have sections lumborum, thoracis, cervis)

Question 9

What is the erector spinae group?

Answer 9

contain iliocostalis, longissimus, spinalis in intermediate layer

Question 10

What are the parts of the deep layer?

Answer 10

transversospinales and segmental group

Question 11

What is transversopinales made of?

Answer 11

semispinalis (thoracis, cervicis, capitas)
multifidus (spans 3 vertebrae)
rotatores (longus and brevis)