Anatomical terminology is used to uniquely describe aspects of skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle, and smooth muscle such as their actions, structure, size...
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Anatomical terminology is a specialized system of terms used by anatomists, zoologists, and health professionals, such as doctors, surgeons, and pharmacists...
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Many anatomical terms descriptive of bone are defined in anatomical terminology, and are often derived from Greek and Latin. Bone in the human body is...
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towards the back. For a full discussion of those terms, see anatomical terms of location. For many purposes of anatomical description, positions and directions...
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Sphincter (redirect from Sphincter Muscle)
classified into functional and anatomical sphincters:[citation needed] Anatomical sphincters have a localised and often circular muscle thickening to facilitate...
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process of movement, is described using specific anatomical terms. Motion includes movement of organs, joints, limbs, and specific sections of the body...
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JM; Cartier, CC; Adams, JH (January 2011). "MRI of the axillary arch muscle: prevalence, anatomic relations, and potential consequences". AJR Am J Roentgenol...
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rectus sternalis muscle is an anatomical variation that lies in front of the sternal end of the pectoralis major parallel to the margin of the sternum. The...
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piriformis muscle (from Latin piriformis 'pear-shaped') is a flat, pyramidally-shaped muscle in the gluteal region of the lower limbs. It is one of the six...
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bipedalism and in anatomically modern humans it mainly acts with the gastrocnemius. The plantaris muscle arises from the inferior part of the lateral supracondylar...
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