Ahsaniqbalkmc 0 Report post Posted June 12, 2010 The nomenclature of the muscles is defective and confused, and is generally derived from some prominent character which each muscle presents some of these characters are discussed in the lines below: Some muscles are named from their situation, as the tibialis (related to tibia bone), peroneus (related to the perineum)Some muscles are named according to their uses, as the flexors, extensors, adductors, abductors, levators, tensors. Some muscles are named according to their form, as the trapezius, triangularis, deltoid.Some muscles are named according to their direction, as the rectus, obliquus, transversalis.Some muscles have received names expressive of their attachments, as the sterno-mastoid, sterno-hyoid.Some muscles have got their names because of their divisions, as the biceps, triceps, digastricus, complexus. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Skepticus 0 Report post Posted June 12, 2010 Interesting observation. Do you have any preferred system of nomenclature, or even a totally new one to suggest? Perhaps this kind of thing should deffer to cladistic taxonomy and comparative anatomy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ahsaniqbalkmc 0 Report post Posted June 18, 2010 Interesting observation. Do you have any preferred system of nomenclature, or even a totally new one to suggest? Perhaps this kind of thing should deffer to cladistic taxonomy and comparative anatomy.I do not have any system of my own and I will not like to have one because the current system is working well. It is easy to remember the names of the muscles with although it take a little time to get familiar to it. I think it is better to first understand a few latin terms for example brevis means short so the muscle which have brevis included in their name will be short and this becomes a memory sign to remember the muscles Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yordan 10 Report post Posted June 18, 2010 Interesting observation. Do you have any preferred system of nomenclature, or even a totally new one to suggest? Perhaps this kind of thing should deffer to cladistic taxonomy and comparative anatomy.He does not have any system, he is simply posting facts borrowed from http://www.mananatomy.com/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ahsaniqbalkmc 0 Report post Posted June 18, 2010 He does not have any system, he is simply posting facts borrowed from http://www.mananatomy.com/Sorry but I could not understand what do you mean by this ?Please explain it to me Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
