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ANA-101 route
Unit 6 · Lesson 4 of 4 13 min

Naming, Actions and Major Skeletal Muscles

Muscle names are clues; read them right and they tell you where a muscle is and what it does.

What this unit covers

Unit 6: Articulations and the Muscular System

  1. 1 Classification of JointsSome joints never move, some barely move, and some swing freely; anatomists sort them two ways. · 10 min
  2. 2 Synovial Joints and Their MovementsThe freely movable joints, the six shapes they come in, and the exact words for every movement. · 13 min
  3. 3 Structure of Skeletal MuscleA muscle is built like a cable of cables, wrapped at every level in connective tissue. · 11 min
  4. 4 Naming, Actions and Major Skeletal MusclesMuscle names are clues; read them right and they tell you where a muscle is and what it does. · 13 min