Week 8 + 9 Packets (Quiz 5) Flashcards
Top part of the radius
Head
Area on the radius that is an outward projection that fits into the radial notch
Radial tuberosity
Pointy projection on bottom of radius
Styloid process
Notch on the bottom of the radius where the head of the ulna connects to the radius
Ulnar notch
Bottom part of the ulna
Head
Top part of the U of the ulna, attaches to the olecranon fossa
Olecranon process
Bottom part of the U of the ulna
Coronoid process
The notch where the radius connects on the ulna
Radial notch
Pointy projection on bottom of ulna
Styloid process
The physical U of the ulna, U-shaped indentation
Trochlear notch
Ends of your fingers
Distal phalanges
Middle part of the fingers
Intermediate phalanges
Part of the finger closest to the hand bones
Proximal phalanges
Hand bones
Metacarpals
Wrist bones
Carpals
Mnemonic for remembering wrist bones
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Type of joint represented by the elbow
Hinge joint
Type of joint represented by the ulna and radius connection
Pivot joint
Type of joint represented by the hands and feet (middle bones)
Condyloid/ellipsoid joints
4 actions of the wrist and hand
Flexion, extension, abduction, and adduction
Muscle that adducts the thumb
Adductor pollicis
Muscle that abducts pinky finger
Abductor digiti minimi
Origin of the flexor carpi radialis
Medial epicondyle of humerus
Insertion of flexor carpi radialis
Base of the second and third metacarpal
Order of wrist bones, left to right, bottom to top
Scaphoid, lunate, triquetrum, pisiform, trapezium, trapezoid, capitate, hammate
Muscle that flexes the hand at the wrist
Flexor carpi radialis
Muscle that tenses skin and fascia of palm during hand movements
Palmaris longus
Muscle that flexes and adducts wrists
Flexor carpi ulnaris
Muscle that flexes wrist and and middle phalanges of fingers 2-5
Flexor digitorum superficialis
Muscle that flexes distal phalanx of thumb
Flexor pollicus longus
Muscle that pronates forearm
Pronation quadratus
Muscle that extends and abducts hand at wrists
Extensor carpi radialis longus
Muscle that Extension and abduction of hand at wrist joint
Extensor carpi radialis brevis
Muscle that controls finger extension
Extensor digitorum
Muscle that abducts and extends thumb
Abductor pollicis longus
Muscle that extends thumb
Extensor pollicis longus
Muscle that extends forearm
Triceps brachii
Origin of biceps brachii
Short head, coracoid process, long head, supraglenoid tubercle
Insertion of biceps brachii
Radial tuberosity
Muscle that flexes and supinates forearm
Biceps brachii
Muscle that flexes forearm
Brachialis
Muscle that flexes forearm (not the brachialis)
Brachioradialis
What is a motor unit
One motor neuron and all the muscle fibers innervated by it
What is the size principle
The principle that the more motor neurons are activated the stronger the muscle contraction will be
What root word refers to muscle
Myo