Naming Skeletal Muscles

Lecture 14

Categories for muscles in the head (2)

-Masticatory muscles

-Facial muscles

Muscle that lifts eye brows

Occipitofrontalis

Muscles that depress eyebrows

-Corrugator Supercilii

-Orbicularis oculi

Main muscle that helps smiling

Zygomaticus

Muscles that flex and rotate the head

-Trapezius

-Levator scalpulae

What are the posterior muscles called

Erector Spinae

Abdominal Muscles

-Rectus Abdominis

-Oblique Muscles

-Transverse Abdominis

Intercostal Muscles (behind abdominal muscles)

-External intercostal (outside)

-Internal intercostal (middle)

-Inner most intercostal (Deepest)

3 parts of the triceps brachii

-Lateral head

-Long head

-Medial head

3 parts to the bicep brachii

-Long head

-Short Head

-Coracobrachialis

Gluteal Region

-Gluteus Maximus

-Gluteus medius

-Gluteus minimus