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The Muscular System
How Muscles Get Their Names
Description
Skeletal muscle names are built from features that help identify each muscle. The names of the roughly 700 muscles in the human body can point to where a muscle is found, what it looks like, or how it works. That makes the names easier to learn and remember.
Many muscle names describe the region ...
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Skeletal muscle names are based on various factors, such as location, physical traits, and functions.
Often, muscle names indicate their location. For example, 'brachium' refers to the arm. So the name biceps brachii suggests its location in the arm.
Additionally, the prefix 'biceps' in its name points to the two origins of the bic...
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