Anterior Muscle Function Matching

Match the anterior head and neck muscles with the appropriate function.

• Draw corner of mouth down; depress mandi

• Platysma

• Elevate mandible

• Temporalis

• Elevate and retract mandible

• Masseter

Match the face and neck muscles with the appropriate function.

• Laterally flex & rotate the head

• Orbicularis Occuli

• Elevate and draw up corners of mouth

• Zygomaticus

• Elevate eyebrows

• Frontalis

• Purses lips

• Sternocleidomastoid

• Close eyelids

• Orbicularis Oris

Match the chest and core muscles with the appropriate function.

• flex and adduct the arm

• Pectoralis major

• flex and laterally bend trunk

• external & internal oblique

• protract the scapula

• Rectus abdominis

• flex the trunk

• Serratus anterior

Match the muscles of the upper extremity with the appropriate functions.

• flexes wrist

• Biceps brachii

• flex elbow; pronate and supinate

• Wrist flexors

• abduct arm; flex & medially rotate arm

• Deltoid

• flex arm and forearm

• Brachioradialis

• flex forearm

• Brachialis

Match the lower extremity muscles with the appropriate function.

• Flex, abduct, and medially rotate thigh

• Tensor fasciae latae

• Flex. abduct, and laterally rotate thigh

• Sartorius

• Adduct, flex, and medially rotate hip

• Adductors

Match each lower extremity muscle with the appropriate function.

• Extend the leg

• Peroneus longus (fibularis longus)

• Dorsiflex and invert the foot

• Tibialis anterior

• Plantar flex and evert the foot

• Quadriceps group