FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024
UCONN PNB Muscles Exam Study
Guide with Complete Solutions
Infraspinatus - Ans:✔✔-O: Infraspinatous fossa of scapula
I: Greater Tubercle of humerous
Action: adduction of humerus and lateral rotation.
Name two general characteristics of connective tissue? - Ans:✔✔-They make up the extracellular matrix
and are vascular
Temporalis - Ans:✔✔-O: Temporal bone
I: Mandible
Action :Closes/Elevates Jaw
Masseter - Ans:✔✔-O:Maxilla/zygomatic arch
I: Mandible
Action :Closes/Elevates Jaw
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Digastricus - Ans:✔✔-O: lower mandible
I:hyoid
Action: Open mouth+hold hyoid
Sternocleidomastoid - Ans:✔✔-O:Sternum+Clavicle
I:Mastoid of Skull
Action: Tilts+Rotates head
Medial Pterygoid - Ans:✔✔-O: Sphenoid
I: Condyloid
Action:Closes Jaw
lateral pterygoid - Ans:✔✔-O:Sphenoid
I: Condyloid process of mandible
Action: Yawns
Trapezius - Ans:✔✔-O: spinous process of C7 and all Thoracic Verts, Occipital bone of skull
I: Clavicle
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