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Skeletal Muscle Practice Exam #1

The document is a practice exam for identifying skeletal muscles and describing their actions. It provides images indicating various muscles and asks the reader to name each muscle and describe its function. Upon clicking to the next slide, it provides the answers to check the reader's responses. The muscles described include those that close the eye, elevate the mandible, pull ribs down during exhalation, flex the torso, elevate and retract the scapula, extend the vertebral column, retract the scapula, extend, adduct and medially rotate the arm, flex the head and neck, contract during inhalation, elevate the scapula, flex the elbow and supinate the forearm, internally rotate the arm,

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Skeletal Muscle Practice Exam #1

The document is a practice exam for identifying skeletal muscles and describing their actions. It provides images indicating various muscles and asks the reader to name each muscle and describe its function. Upon clicking to the next slide, it provides the answers to check the reader's responses. The muscles described include those that close the eye, elevate the mandible, pull ribs down during exhalation, flex the torso, elevate and retract the scapula, extend the vertebral column, retract the scapula, extend, adduct and medially rotate the arm, flex the head and neck, contract during inhalation, elevate the scapula, flex the elbow and supinate the forearm, internally rotate the arm,

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Skeletal Muscle

Practice Exam #1
Name the following muscles indicated
by the arrows and describe their actions.

Click to the next slide to see the answer.


*For best results on these practice exams, write your answers
on paper before clicking to see the correct answer. Try to
answer within a minute (remember your lab exams will be
timed) and make sure to check your spelling!

*note: not every muscle you are required to know will be on this practice exercise so make sure you
review the checklist of structures (p. 110 in your lab manual) when preparing for your lab exam
*click to the next slide to
check your answer
Orbicularis oculi

Action: Closes
eye/squeezes
eye shut
*click to the next slide to
check your answer
Masseter

Action: Elevates mandible


*click to the next slide to
check your answer
Internal intercostals

Action: Pulls ribs


inferiorly to cause
expiration
(exhalation)
*click to the next slide to
check your answer
Rectus abdominis

Action: Flexion of torso


at vertebral column
*click to the next slide to
check your answer
Trapezius

Action:
Elevation,
retraction or
depression of
the scapula;
Extension of
the head and
neck
*click to the next slide to
check your answer
Erector spinae

Action:
Extension of
vertebral
column with
bilateral
contraction;
Rotation and
lateral flexion
of spine with
unilateral
contraction
*click to the next slide to
check your answer
Rhomboid major

Action: Retraction of
the scapula
*click to the next slide to
check your answer
Latissimus dorsi

Action:
Extension,
adduction and
medial rotation
of the arm at
the shoulder
*click to the next slide to
check your answer
Action: Flexion of the
head and neck with
bilateral (both left and
right) contraction; Lateral
Sternocleidomastoid flexion and rotation of the
head and neck with
unilateral contraction
*click to the next slide to
check your answer
Diaphragm

Action: Contraction
causes inspiration
(inhalation) by
increasing the
volume of the
thoracic cavity
*click to the next slide to
check your answer
Levator scapulae

Action: Elevation of
the scapula
*click to the next slide to
check your answer
Action: Flexion at the
elbow and supination of
the forearm

Biceps brachii
*click to the next slide to
check your answer
Action: Internal
(medial) rotation of
the arm at the
shoulder

Subscapularis
*click to the next slide to
check your answer
Action:
Abduction,
flexion or
extension of the
arm at the
shoulder

Deltoid
*click to the next slide to
check your answer
Action: Flexion and
abduction (radial
deviation) at the wrist

Flexor carpi radialis


*click to the next slide to
check your answer
Action: Supination of
the forearm

Supinator
*click to the next slide to
check your answer
Supraspinatus

Action: Abduction of the


arm at the shoulder
*click to the next slide to
check your answer
Psoas major

Action: Flexion of
the thigh at the
hip
*click to the next slide to
check your answer
Action: Extension of
the leg at the knee

Vastus lateralis
*click to the next slide to
check your answer
Gluteus medius

Action: Abduction of
the thigh at the hip
*click to the next slide to
check your answer
Extensor digitorum longus

Action: Extension of
digits (toes) and
dorsiflexion at ankle
*click to the next slide to
check your answer
Gastrocnemius

Action: Plantar flexion


at ankle; helps with
knee flexion

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