Anatomy & Physiology › Section J · The muscular system › Topic J.2
Naming skeletal muscles
The body has more than 600 skeletal muscles, and their names can look like a wall of Latin. But most names are built from a small set of word parts that tell you where a muscle is, what it looks like or what it does, so learning the parts turns memorising into decoding.
In this topic
- Names that describe
- Clues from location
- Clues from shape
- Clues from size and length
- Clues from direction, position and heads
- Clues from attachments
- Clues from action
- Worked example: decoding two forearm muscles
- Worked example: from description to name
- When names mislead
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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