This is how you name muscles | Anatomical Terms Pronunciation by Kenhub

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In this video tutorial we will take a look at how the names of the muscles of the human body are derived. Learning and understanding the terminology and definition of anatomical terms is one of the most basic skills every student needs to acquire, so they can describe and discuss anatomical issues in lectures and courses with other students or lecturers in a precise fashion.
We will take a closer look and give examples for how muscles are named after their shape, size, muscle fibre orientation, action, and more, so you will become fluent in talking about the different aspects of the muscular system.
- conventions of naming muscles after different features
- shape (e.g. deltoid, trapezius)
- size (e.g. vastus, maximus, major/minor, longus/brevis)
- muscle fibre orientation (e.g. transverse, oblique, rectus)
- action of the muscle (e.g. flexor, rotator, adductor, sphincter)
- number of origins (e.g. bi-, tri-, quadri-)
- origin and insertion (e.g. sternohyoid)
- function (e.g. risorius = laugh)
- location (e.g. tibialis anterior, supraspinatus)
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