anatomy exam 1

The sartorius muscle

• Flexes the knee joint and extends the hip joint.

• Is one of the boundaries of the femoral triangle.

• Arises from the anterior inferior iliac spine.

• Is fusiform muscle.

The following muscle is not supplied by the obturator nerve:

• Adductor longus.

• Pectincus.

• Gracilis.

• Adductor brevis.

The most powerful extensor of the hip joint is:

• Semimembranosus.

• Gluteus maximus.

• Sacrospinalis.

• Gluteus medius.

Abductors of the hip joint

• prevent pelvic drop during walking.

• Their paralysis cause waddling gait.

  
  

• Gluteus medius and minimus.

• All the above is true.

all of the following is true about the guy rope muscles except :

• they are Sartorius , gracilis, semimembranosus

• flex the knee joint

• Stabilize the pelvic on the femur

• arise from different points in the hip bone

The structures which pass through the greater sciatic foramen are the following except:

• Piriformis.

• Sciatic nerve

• Tendon of obturator internus muscle.

• Nerve to obturator internus.

All the following statements are true for the tensor fascia lata muscle, except

• Attached to the iliac tubercle.

• Inserted into the iliotibial tract.

• Innervated by the superior gluteal nerve

• Lies deep to the gluteus medius muscle

The most superficial structure lying within the popliteal fossa

• Popliteal artery

• Tiblal nerve

• Common peroneal nerve

• small saphenous vein

• Popliteal vein

The head of the quadriceps muscle which acts on the hip joint:

• Vastus lateralis muscle.

• Rectus femoris.

• Vastus intermedius.

• All the above.

All of the following Muscles arise from ischial tuberosity except

• semitendinousus muscle.

• long head of rectus femoris.

• semimembranosus

• non of the above