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12.8: Laboratory Activities and Assignment

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    Laboratory Activities and Assignment

    Part 1: Review of the Head and Anterior Neck Muscles

    1. Label the muscles in the diagram below by placing the name of each muscle listed below in the corresponding blank space on the figure below.

    • aponeurosis of epicranius
    • buccinator
    • depressor anguli oris
    • depressor labii inferioris
    • frontal belly of epicranius
    • occipital belly of epicranius
    • orbicularis oculi
    • orbicularis oris
    • mentalis
    • masseter
    • nasalis
    • platysma
    • risorius
    • sternocleidomastoid
    • trapezius
    • zygomaticus major
    • zygomaticus minor

    Head and neck figure for labeling

    2. Label the muscles in the diagram below by placing the name of each muscle listed below in the corresponding blank space on the figure below.

    • digastric
    • mylohyoid
    • omohyoid
    • scalenus anterior
    • scalenus medius
    • sternocleidomastoid
    • sternohyoid
    • stylohyoid
    • thyrohyoid
    • trapezius

    Neck muscles figure for labeling

    3. Label the muscles that move the eye and eyelid by placing the name of each muscle listed below in the corresponding blank space on the figure below.

    • superior rectus
    • inferior rectus
    • levator palpebrae superioris
    • lateral rectus
    • medial rectus
    • superior oblique
    • inferior oblique

    Eye figure for labeling

    Part 2: Review of Trunk and Posterior Neck Muscles

    1. Label the muscles in the diagram below by placing the name of each muscle listed below in the corresponding blank space on the figure below (left shows superficial muscles of anterior thorax and arm and right shows deeper muscles of anterior thorax and arm).

    • biceps brachii (both heads)
    • biceps brachii (short head)
    • biceps brachii (long head)
    • coracobrachialis
    • brachialis
    • deltoid (2 places)
    • external intercostal
    • internal intercostal
    • pectoralis major (2 places)
    • pectoralis minor
    • serratus anterior

    Thorax and arm figure for labeling

    2. Label the muscles in the diagram below by placing the name of each muscle listed below in the corresponding blank space on the figure below (top left shows superficial anterior abdominal muscles, top right is one layer deeper than top left, bottom right shows one layer deeper than top right, and bottom left shows a cut through the multiple abdominal layers).

    • external intercostal
    • external oblique (2 places)
    • internal intercostal
    • internal obliques (2 places)
    • linea alba (2 places)
    • pectoralis major
    • rectus abdominis
    • serratus anterior
    • transversus abdominis (2 places)

    Abdominal figure for labeling

    Abdominal muscle figure for labeling

    3. Label the muscles in the diagram below by placing the name of each muscle listed below in the corresponding blank space on the figure below (left side shows superficial muscles and right side shows deeper muscles of the posterior trunk and neck).

    • deltoid
    • infraspinatus
    • latissimus dorsi
    • levator scapulae
    • rhomboid major
    • rhomboid minor
    • serratus posterior inferior
    • splenius capitis
    • supraspinatus
    • teres major
    • teres minor
    • trapezius

    Posterior trunk muscles figure for labeling

    4. Label the muscles in the diagram below by placing the name of each muscle listed below in the corresponding blank space on the figure below (figure mostly shows only one of each of the paired muscles of the deep posterior trunk - focus on lateral positions of the long vertebral muscles in relation to each other and whether the muscles are associated with the cervical vertebrae, thoracic vertebrae, lumbar vertebrae, or the skull).

    • external intercostal
    • iliocostalis lumborum
    • iliocostalis thoracis
    • longissimus capitis
    • longissimus cervicis
    • longissimus thoracis
    • multifidus
    • obliquus capitis inferior
    • obliquus capitis superior
    • quadratus lumborum
    • rectus capitis posterior major
    • rectus capitis posterior minor
    • semispinalis capitis
    • semispinalis cervicis
    • semispinalis thoracis
    • spinalis thoracis