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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
Muscle
Anatomy Terms
abdominis
(L: "abdomen")
abduction
(ab,
L: "away or from"; duct, L: "lead")
adduction
(ad,
L: "to or toward"; duct, L: "lead")
biceps
(bi,
L: "two"; ceps, L: "head")
brachii
(G:
"arm")
brevis
(L:
"short")
carpi
(G:
"wrist")
costals
(L:
"rib")
deltoid (delt, G: "triangle";
oid, G: "like")
digitorum (L:
"finger or toe")
dorsalis (L:
"the back ")
extension (ex,
L: "out"; tens, L: "stretch")
external (L:
"outer")
femoris (L:
"thigh")
flexion (L:
"to bend")
gluteus (G:
"the rump ")
hallucis (L:
"great toe")
internal (L:
"inner")
lateralis (L:
"the side")
latissimus (lat,
L: "broad or wide")
longus (L:
"long")
major (L: "larger")
maximus (L: "largest")
medialis (L: "toward the middle")
minimus
(L: "smallest")
minor (L: "smaller")
oblique (L: "running at an angle from the
midline")
oculi (L: "eye")
orbicularis (orb, L: "circle";
cul, L: "little")
oris (L: "mouth")
palmaris (L: "palm of the hand")
pectoralis (L: "breast")
peroneus (G: "fibula")
pollicis (L: "thumb")
pronation (pron, L: "bent forward")
rectus (L: "straight")
scapularis (L: "shoulder blade")
serratus
(L: "a saw ")
sub
(L: "under or below")
supination
(L: "lying on the back")
supra
(L: "above or over")
teres
(L: "round")
tibialis
(L: "shin bone ")
trapezius
(G: "table")
triceps
(tri, L: "three"; cep, L: "head")
vastus
(L: "huge")
ventralis
(L: "underside or belly")
scapularis
(L: "shoulder blade")
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