Kansas School Naturalist: Muscle Names

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Volume 42, Number 1, January 1996:
Muscle Names

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ABOUT THIS ISSUE
- about KSN
- about the author

IN THIS ISSUE
- introduction
- how muscles are named
-- direction of muscle fibers
-- muscle size, location
-- location of the muscle attachment, origin and Insertion on bones
-- number of origins, relation of the muscle to the bone
-- figure 1
-- shape and type of action by the muscle
- muscles of the upper limb
-- upper arm muscles
-- forearm muscles
-- figure 3
- muscles of the lower limb
-- figure 4
-- figure 5
- muscles of the trunk
-- figure 6
-- figure 7
- muscle anatomy terms
- references

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Muscle Names
by David Saunders

References

Ayers, Donald. 1972. Bioscientific Terminology: Words from Latin and Greek Stems. University of Arizona Press: Tucson, AZ.

Borror, Donald J. 1960. Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms. Mayfield Publishing Company: Palo Alto, CA.

Gray, H. 1977. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical, A Revised American. From the Fifteenth English Edition. T.P. Pick and R. Howden Eds. Bounty Books: New York, NY.

Martini, F.H. 1995. Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology. 3rd Edition. Prentice-Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ.

McMurrich, J.P. 1930. Leonardo da Vinci: The Anatomist. Williams and Wilkins, Publ.: Baltimore, MD.

Rowe, Edward. 1992. "Bone Names". The Kansas School Naturalist, Vol. 38, No. 1. Emporia State University, Emporia, KS.

Shier D., J. Butler, and R. Lewis. 1996. Hole's Human Anatomy and Physiology. 7th Edition. Wm. C. Brown, Publ.: Dubuque, IA.

Singer, C. 1926. The Evolution of Anatomy, Alfred A. Knopf, Publ.: New York, NY.

Stedman, T.L. 1990. Stedman's Medical Dicitionary. 25th Edition. Williams and Wilkins: Baltimore, MD.