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Muscular System: Functions of Muscles

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    Major Muscle Functions
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  • What muscle turns and flexes the head?
    sternocleidomastoid
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  • What muscle extends and elevates the shoulders?
    Trapezius
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  • What muscle abducts the arm and also serves as a common injection site for vaccines
    deltoid
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  • What muscles are in the upper arm and flexes the lower arm and supinates the hand?
    Biceps Brachii
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  • What muscle is in the upper arm and extends and adducts the lower arm?
    Triceps brachii
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  • Muscle of the upper chest that adducts and flexes the upper arm
    Pectoralis Major
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  • Long flat muscles at front of abdomen that compresses.bends the abdomen and flexes vertebral column
    Rectus Abdominis
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  • Broad flat muscle that extends from the spine to the chest, extends and adducts upper arm
    Latissimus Dorsi
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  • Muscle found on buttocks, extends and rotates the thigh
    Gluteus Maximus
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  • Muscle that is found on the front of the thigh, abducts the thigh, flexes the leg
    Sartorius
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  • Form the main bulk of the thigh on the front of the leg, flexes the hip, extends the leg
    Quadriceps
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  • Muscle at the front of lower leg that flexes and inverts the foot
    Tibialis Aneterior
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  • Muscle found on the back of the lower leg, flexes and supinates the sole of the foot
    Gastrocnemius
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  • Moving away from midline
    abduction
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  • Moving towards the midline
    Adduction
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