Muscles of the Human Body Flashcards

Muscles of the Human Body flashcards — the free 30

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Frontalis

Epicranial aponeurosis → eyebrow skin; raises the eyebrows

Occipitalis

Occipital bone → epicranial aponeurosis; draws the scalp back

Orbicularis oculi

Orbit margin → eyelid tissue; closes the eye, blinks

Orbicularis oris

Maxilla and mandible → lip tissue; closes and purses the lips

Buccinator

Maxilla, mandible → orbicularis oris; compresses the cheek

Zygomaticus major

Zygomatic bone → corner of the mouth; smiling

Masseter

Zygomatic arch → angle of mandible; elevates the jaw to chew

Temporalis

Temporal fossa → coronoid process; elevates, retracts the jaw

Medial pterygoid

Sphenoid → medial ramus of mandible; elevates the jaw

Lateral pterygoid

Sphenoid → mandibular condyle; protrudes the jaw

Sternocleidomastoid

Sternum, clavicle → mastoid process; flexes neck, turns head

Scalenes

Cervical vertebrae → ribs 1–2; elevate ribs, flex the neck

Platysma

Chest fascia → mandible, face skin; tenses the skin of the neck

Digastric

Mandible, mastoid → hyoid; opens the jaw, raises the hyoid

Mylohyoid

Mandible → hyoid; forms and lifts the floor of the mouth

Sternohyoid

Manubrium → hyoid; depresses the hyoid after swallowing

Splenius capitis

C7–T4 spines → mastoid, occipital; extends and turns the head

Trapezius

Occiput, C7–T12 → clavicle, scapular spine; elevates, retracts, depresses scapula

Latissimus dorsi

T7–L5, iliac crest → humerus; extends, adducts, medially rotates the arm

Rhomboid major

T2–T5 spines → medial scapula; retracts the scapula

Rhomboid minor

C7–T1 spines → medial scapula; retracts the scapula

Levator scapulae

C1–C4 transverse → upper scapula; elevates the scapula

Serratus anterior

Ribs 1–9 → medial scapula; protracts scapula (boxer's muscle)

Pectoralis major

Clavicle, sternum, ribs → humerus; flexes, adducts, medially rotates the arm

Pectoralis minor

Ribs 3–5 → coracoid process; depresses the scapula

Erector spinae

Sacrum, iliac crest → ribs, vertebrae; extends the spine

Quadratus lumborum

Iliac crest → rib 12, L1–L4; bends the trunk sideways

Diaphragm

Sternum, ribs, lumbar spine → central tendon; main inspiration

External intercostals

Rib above → rib below; elevate the ribs to inhale

Internal intercostals

Rib below → rib above; depress the ribs for forced exhaling

Muscles of the Human Body flashcards — questions people ask

How many cards are in the Muscles of the Human Body flashcard deck?

The Muscles of the Human Body deck on PuzzlePage has 102 cards. The first 30 are free to play and free to download with no account; the remaining 72 unlock for $2.99 as a one-time payment, or with the $11.99-a-month Study Pack that covers every deck on the site. About a hundred muscles are named in a high-school anatomy course. The body has over six hundred; the rest are dissection-lab names, not flash-card names.

What is on the muscles of the human body flashcards?

The muscles a high-school anatomy or health-science course names, each with its origin, insertion and action on the back in one terse line. Cards look like this: Frontalis → Epicranial aponeurosis → eyebrow skin; raises the eyebrows; Occipitalis → Occipital bone → epicranial aponeurosis; draws the scalp back. The deck is written for grades 9–12 / cte and filed under science.

Can I study muscles of the human body flashcards online for free?

Yes. The first 30 cards of the Muscles of the Human Body deck play free in any web browser at puzzlepage.app, with no account, no app and no card details. It works on a phone, tablet, Chromebook, laptop or classroom projector. Practice mode flips through the cards with nothing scored; quiz mode makes you answer each card before it flips, times the run and scores it.

Are the muscles of the human body flashcards accurate?

Every card in the Muscles of the Human Body deck was read and fact-checked by a subject-matter specialist before it went on sale, as was every other card on PuzzlePage — 5,420 cards across 30 decks. The audit found and fixed real defects, and one deck was withdrawn from sale entirely rather than shipped with a known problem. That is the difference from a user-generated flashcard site, where the cards are whatever a stranger typed and nobody is accountable for them.

Can I print the muscles of the human body flashcards?

Yes. The Muscles of the Human Body cards are available as a printable double-sided PDF to cut up, as well as playable in the browser. The first 30 cards are free to download; the full 102-card printable is included in the $11.99-a-month Study Pack.

How should I use the Muscles of the Human Body deck to revise?

Start in practice mode and go through the Muscles of the Human Body deck once without scoring, to find out which cards you already know — the deck is dealt in a different order every time you open it, so you are recalling the card rather than its position. Then switch to quiz mode, which times and scores the run and lets you re-run only the cards you missed. Use the "flip deck" control to swap which side is the question: recognising an answer is much easier than producing one, so a deck you find easy one way round is usually the harder and more useful drill the other way. Two or three short sessions across a week beat one long one, which is the whole reason flashcards work.

What grade level are the muscles of the human body flashcards for?

The Muscles of the Human Body deck is written for grades 9–12 / cte. Because the cards are plain term-and-answer pairs, they are also used outside that band — by adults revising science, and by teachers running them as a whole-class starter on a projector.