MUSCULAR SYSTEM

IDENTIFY THE MUSCLE HAVING THE FOLLOWING DESCRIPTIVE TERM :

1. Kissing muscle 5. Expiratory muscle 9. Toe dancer’s muscle

2. Trumpeter’s muscle 6. Prayer muscle 10. Axial muscle
3. Chewer muscle 7. Boxer’s muscle 11. Tailor’s muscle
4. Inspiratory muscle 8. Swimmer’s muscle 12. Hamstring muscle

IDENTIFY THE MUSCLE(S) INVOLVED IN THE FOLLOWING FACIAL EXPRESSION :

1. Draws the angle of the mouth laterally and inferiorly as one opens his mouth in an act of surprise
2. Raises the eyebrows, wrinkles the skin of the forehead horizontally
3. Closes and protrudes the lips; shapes the lips during speech
4. Depresses the lower lip to express sadness
5. Elevates the upper lip to bare upper teeth
6. Wrinkles the skin of the forehead vertically as when one frowns
7. Opens the eye
8. Smile/ Laugh
9. Elevates and protrudes lower lip as when one pouts
10. Winks, squint
11. Whistles, blow up a balloon
12. Closes the eye

IDENTIFY THE MUSCLE WITH THE FOLLOWING ACTIONS :

1. Muscle of the eye that contracts and relaxes as one gazes to the left side without moving the head (orbicularis
oculi)
2. Muscle that moves the mandible from side to side to help grind the teeth (lateral pterygoid)
3. When your physician says, “open your mouth, stick out your tongue, and say ahh”, the muscles contracting are
___.(lateral pterygoid, depressor anguli oris, genioglossus)
4. Muscle used to move the head as one would signify affirmation (flexors)
5. Muscle/(s) that compress(es) the abdomen to aid in defecation, urination, forced expiration and childbirth.
(External Oblique muscle)
6. Muscle most important in breathing (diaphragm)
7. Which muscle is strengthened by Kegel’s exercises ? (pelvic floor muscles)
8. Which muscles are involved in expelling the last drop of urine (/urine and semen in male)?(deep transverse
perineal, external urethral sphincter)
9. Muscles used to drive a stake using a sledge-hammer(rhomboid major, rhomboid minor)
10. A powerful muscle that forms the rounded contour of the shoulder (deltoid)
11. Tendons of these muscles fuse together forming a complete circle around the shoulder joint like the cuff on a
shirt sleeve (infraspinatous, subscapularis, supraspinatus, teres minor)
12. Enumerate the scapular muscles (levator scapulae, pectoralis minor, major rhomboid, minor rhomboid, serratus
anterior, trapezius)
13. A powerful flexor muscle often called the workhorse of the elbow flexors brachialis
14. Muscle used during weightlifting
15. Muscle used to twist a corkscrew or turn a screw with a screwdriver.( supinator)
16. Set of muscles involved in skilled activities such as writing, typing or playing the piano (flexor muscle, extensor
muscle)
17. Muscle responsible for the prominent bulge on either side of the vertebral column. (erector spinae)
18. Muscle that steadies the pelvis during walking (gluteus medius)
19. Muscles of the quadriceps femoris. (rectus femoris, vastus intermedius, vastus lateralis, vastus medialis
20. The calf muscles (triceps surae muscle, gastrocnemius muscle, soleus muscle, plantaris muscle, quadriceps
femoris muscle, tibialis anterior muscle