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Muscle tissue, muscles (including origin and insertion sites), cranial and spinal nerves, and cervical, brachial, lumbar, and sacral plexuses.
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What muscle is the yellow line indicating? What action does this muscle perform?
Frontal belly muscle. This muscle raises the eyebrows (wrinkled forehead).


What muscle is the yellow line indicating?
Occipital belly muscle


What muscle is the yellow line indicating? What action does this muscle perform?
Orbicularis Oculi muscle. This muscle closes the eye (blinks).


What muscle is the yellow and blue line indicating? What action does this muscle perform?
What is the origin and insertion of this muscle?
The zygomaticus major muscle is in yellow and the zygomaticus minor muscle is in blue. These muscles raise the lateral corners of the mouth. These muscles allow for smiling.
The origin is the zygomatic bone.
The insertion is the skin and muscle at the corner of the mouth.


What muscle is the yellow line indicating?
Buccinator muscle


What muscle is the yellow line indicating? What action does this muscle perform?
Orbicularis oris muscle. This muscle closes or puckers the lips.


What muscle is the yellow line indicating? What action does this muscle perform?
What is the origin and insertion of this muscle?
Masseter muscle. This muscle is the prime mover of jaw closure.
The origin is the zygomatic arch and zygomatic bone.
The insertion is the angle and ramus of the mandible.


What muscle is the yellow line indicating? What action does this muscle perform?
Sternocleidomastoid muscle. This muscle flexes and laterally rotates the head.


What muscle is the yellow line indicating? What action does this muscle perform?
Trapezius muscle. This muscle stabilizes, elevates, retracts, and rotates the scapula.


What muscle is the yellow line indicating? What action does this muscle perform?
Pectoralis major muscle. This muscle adducts and medially rotates the arm.


What muscle is the yellow line indicating? What action does this muscle perform?
What is the origin and insertion of this muscle?
Biceps brachii muscle. This muscle flexes and supinates the forearm.
The origin is at the coracoid process
The insertion is the common tendon into the radial tuberosity.


What muscles are the yellow, blue, and purple lines indicating? What action does this muscle perform?
What is the origin and insertion of this muscle?
Triceps brachii muscle (long, lateral, and medial head). These muscles extend the forearm (prime mover is this medal head)
The origin is at the posterior shaft of the humerus
The insertion is the common tendon into the olecranon of the ulna.


What muscle is the yellow line indicating? What action does this muscle perform?
What is the origin and insertion of this muscle?
Brachialis muscle. This muscle is the major forearm flexor. It lifts the ulna as the biceps lifts the radius.
The origin is the anterior surface of the distal humerus
The insertion is the coronoid process of the ulna


What muscle is the yellow line indicating?
Flexor carpi radialis muscle


What muscle is the blue line indicating? What action does this muscle perform?
Flexor carpi ulnaris muscle. This muscle stabilizes the wrist during finger extension.


What muscle is the yellow line indicating?
Extensor digitorium muscle.


What muscle is the blue line indicating? What action does this muscle perform?
Extensor carpi ulnaris muscle. This muscle extends and adducts the hand.


What muscle is the yellow line indicating? What action does this muscle perform?
Gluteus maximus muscle. This muscle extends the thigh and laterally rotates and abducts the thigh.


What muscle is the blue line indicating?
Gluteus Medius muscle


What muscle is the blue line indicating? What action does this muscle perform?
External intercostals muscle. This muscle pulls ribs toward one another to elevate the rib cage.


What muscle is the yellow line indicating? What action does this muscle perform?
Internal intercostals muscle. This muscle pulls the ribs together and depresses the rib cage.


What muscle is the yellow line indicating? What action does this muscle perform?
Diaphragm muscle. This muscle moves inspiration and flattens or contracts.


What muscle is the yellow line indicating?
Rectus abdominis muscle


What muscle is the yellow line indicating?
External obliques muscle


What muscle is the yellow line indicating?
Internal obliques muscle


What muscle is the yellow line indicating?
Transverse abdominis muscle


What muscle is the yellow line indicating? What action does this muscle perform?
What is the origin and insertion of this muscle?
Deltoid muscle. This muscle abducts and medially rotates the arm.
The origin is the end of the clavicle, sternum, and cartilage of the ribs
The insertion is at the intertubercular sulcus and greater tubercle of the humerus.


What muscle is the yellow line indicating? What action does this muscle perform?
Latissimus dorsi muscle. This muscle extends, adducts, and medially rotates the arm.


What muscle is the purple line indicating?
Gracilis muscle.


What muscle is the yellow line indicating? What action does this muscle perform?
Rectus femoris muscle. This muscle extends the leg and flexes the thigh at the hip.


What muscle is the yellow line indicating?
Vastus medialis muscle


What muscle is the yellow line indicating?
Vastus intermedius muscle


What muscle is the purple line indicating? What action does this muscle perform?
What is the origin and insertion of this muscle?
Vastus lateralis muscle. This muscle extends the leg and stabilizes the knee.
The origin is the greater trochanter
The insertion is the patella

What muscle is the yellow line indicating? What action does this muscle perform?
What is the origin and insertion of this muscle?
Biceps femoris muscle. This muscle extends the thigh and flexes the leg.
The origin is the ischial tuberosity
The insertion is the lateral condyle of the tibia.


What muscle is the purple line indicating?
Semitendinosus muscle


What muscle is the yellow line indicating? What action does this muscle perform?
What is the origin and insertion of this muscle?
Gastrocnemius muscle. This muscle plantar flexes the foot when leg is extended.
The origin is the two heads of medial and lateral condyles of the femur.
The insertion is the posterior calcaneus via calcaneal tendon


What muscle is the purple line indicating?
Soleus muscle


What muscle is the yellow line indicating? What action does this muscle perform?
Tibialis anterior muscle. This muscle allows dorsiflexion (pointing the foot upward)


What muscle is the yellow line indicating?
Brachioradialis muscle


The dark blue arrow is indicating what?
Nucleus


The orange arrow is indicating what?
Dendrites


The purple arrow indicates what?
Axon


The green arrow indicates what?
Axon hillock


The yellow arrow indicates what?
Schwann cells

The light blue arrow indicates what?
Node of Ranvier (myelin sheath gaps)

The green box indicates what?
Myelin sheath

The gray arrow indicates what?
Axon terminals

What is the green circle indicating on the sheep's brain?
Olfactory bulb

What is the yellow circle indicating on the sheep's brain?
Optic nerve/chiasma

What is the purple circle indicating on the sheep's brain?
Pons

What is the blue circle indicating on the sheep's brain?
Medulla

What is the red circle indicating on the sheep's brain?
Midbrain

What is the yellow circle indicating on the sheep's brain?
Hypothalamus

What is the green circle indicating on the sheep's brain?
Cerebrum

What is the blue circle indicating on the sheep's brain?
Frontal lobes

What is the purple circle indicating on the sheep's brain?
Occipital Lobes

What is the yellow circle indicating on the sheep's brain?
Parietal lobes

What is the yellow circle indicating on the sheep's brain?
Cerebellum

What is the color purple indicating on the sheep's brain?
Arbor vitae

What is the red circle indicating on the sheep's brain?
Pineal body/gland

What is the red circle indicating on the sheep's brain?
Corpus callosum

What is the purple circle indicating on the sheep's brain?
Thalamus

What is the green circle indicating on the sheep's brain?
Lateral ventricle

What is the yellow circle indicating on the sheep's brain?
Transverse fissure

What is the green circle indicating on the human brain?
Brain stem

What is the yellow circle indicating on the human brain?
Medulla oblongata

What is the purple circle indicating on the human brain?
Pons

What is the red circle indicating on the human brain?
Midbrain

What is the yellow circle indicating on the human brain?
Cerebellum

What is the blue circle indicating on the human brain?
Folia

What is the color purple indicating on the human brain?
Arbor vitae

What are green circles indicating on the human brain?
Cerebellar cortex
What do the thalamus, hypothalamus, and epithalamus make up?
The diencephalon

What does the yellow circle indicate on the human brain?
Thalamus

What does the purple circle indicate on the human brain?
Hypothalamus

What does the green circle indicate on the human brain?
Infundibulum

What does the red circle indicate on the human brain?
Mammillary bodies

What does the blue circle indicate on the human brain?
Pituitary gland

What does the yellow circle indicate on the human brain?
Pineal gland

What does the yellow circle indicate on the human brain?
Cerebrum

What does the green line indicate on the human brain?
Central sulcus

Which lobe is the yellow circle indicating on the human brain?
Frontal lobe

Which lobe is the purple circle indicating on the human brain?
Occipital lobe

Which lobe is the blue circle indicating on the human brain?
Parietal lobe

Which lobe is the green circle indicating on the human brain?
Temporal lobe

What does the blue line indicate on the human brain?
Transverse cerebral fissure

What does the red line indicate on the human brain?
Lateral sulcus

What is the yellow line indicating on the human brain?
Longitudinal fissure

What is being highlighted in yellow on the human brain?
Pre-central gyrus

What is being highlighted in purple on the human brain?
Post-central gyrus (post=back; meaning the back of the brain)

What does the yellow circle indicate on the ventricle?
One of the lateral ventricles; other one is mirrored on the other side

What does the purple circle indicate on the ventricle?
Third ventricle

What does the green circle indicate on the ventricle?
Fourth ventricle

What does the yellow circle indicate on the ventricle?
Cerebral aqueduct

What does the yellow circle indicate on the human brain?
Corpus callosum
What do the pituitary gland, mammillary bodies, and infundibulum make up?
The hypothalamus

What does the yellow circle indicate on the spinal cord?
Gray matter

What do the purple circles indicate on the spinal cord?
Posterior/dorsal horns

What do the blue circles indicate on the spinal cord?
Anterior/ventral horns

What do the green circles indicate on the spinal cord?
Lateral horn