Trunk & Limb Muscles

What are the muscles between the ribs called?

• Erector spinae

• Intercostal

• Obliques

• Transversus

• Quadratus lumborum

What is the most superficial abdomen muscle?

• Rectus

• Latissimus dorsi

• Obliques

• Transversus

• Quadratus lumborum

What abdominal muscle runs from the pubis to the rib cage?

• Quadratus lumborum

• Trapezius

• Transversus

• Rectus

• Latissimus dorsi

What muscles make up the lateral walls of the abdomen?

• Obliques

• Erector spinae

• Rectus

• Latissimus dorsi

• Trapezius

What are the deepest abdominal wall muscles?

• Rectus

• Latissimus dorsi

• Obliques

• Transversus

• Quadratus lumborum

What muscles allow our ribs to move so we can inhale and exhale?

• Trapezius

• Latissimus dorsi

• Intercostal

• Erector spinae

• Rectus

What muscle group allows us to remove solid waste from our bodies?

• Obliques

• Erector spinae

• Rectus

• Latissimus dorsi

• Trapezius

What muscle group allows us to push out babies during birth?

• Latissimus dorsi

• Rectus

• Quadratus lumborum

• Obliques

• Erector spinae

What muscle group allows us to rotate our trunk?

• Rectus

• Latissimus dorsi

• Obliques

• Transversus

• Quadratus lumborum

What muscle group allows us to bend our trunk laterally?

• Latissimus dorsi

• Rectus

• Transversus

• Obliques

• Erector spinae