anyone taking or has taken anatomy?

[A Hamster Named Loneliness]

for those who have taken anatomy before, what's the best way to remember all the muscle names and their origins and insertions, as well as what each muscle does (for example, the extensor digitum longus muscle dorsiflexes the ankles and extends the toes while the extensor hallicus brevis helps extend the big toe)? Learning the bones was easy but muscles are a lot harder.

 

 

that being said, if your anatomy class does dissections, what animal(s) are/did you dissect?

[Nowhere Boy]

I'm taking it rn. Make flashcards and study them as much as you can, that's what I do.

[Deâ„“phina]

Dropped it for Orgo. Worst mistake of my life, 

[A Hamster Named Loneliness]

I'm taking it rn. Make flashcards and study them as much as you can, that's what I do.

unfortunately it's going to take more than flashcards to make it in my anatomy class, because yesterday my professor gave us a quiz where he showed a picture of a torso with all the muscles shown anteriorly with lines and numbers pointing to each muscle and we had to identify which muscle is what (for example, be able to see that the muscle corresponding to #22 is the latissimus dorsi), and the flashcards I made the night before (my anatomy class meets back to back on Friday and Saturday. Saturday's quiz is always on Friday's lecture) didn't help much with that. :(

[tearose]

It helps to learn some medical terminology. With knowledge of what the prefix, combining form, and suffix is, you'll be able to work out what it is.

[swimgood]

i have a huge spreadsheet one of my ta's made us! it's more of a reference than anything else, but it has a lot of important info  we did dissections on humans though so not sure how helpful that is for your course

 

here's the link

[uzukii]

I don't know what your class is like, but when I took anatomy this is what I did:

 

• Anatomy is all about repetition so flashcards, anatomy games, online quizzes with pictures help.
• For memorizing muscle names, I used a combination of fill-in-the-blanks and renting out my school's plastic muscle models. You can also find quirky ways to remember things. (I'll post my techniques if I can dig up my old anatomy notes lol)

 

 

similar to this:

 

• as for memorizing what each muscle does, it's best know where everything is first and tick words to jog the memory! Let's use your example, the extensor digitorum longus muscle dorsiflexes the ankles and extends the toes: "digitorum" think of "digit"---> "digit" think of toes or fingers, etc etc. Trust me, you need to nail down the placement of each muscle first before focusing on what it does because it'll be easier for you in the long run. The names and placements will tell you what each muscle does (along with the tendon of course)

[A Hamster Named Loneliness]

It helps to learn some medical terminology. With knowledge of what the prefix, combining form, and suffix is, you'll be able to work out what it is.

I previously took a veterinary medical terminology course a while back but unfortunately I think that's only helpful for animal anatomy and not human anatomy, haha.

 

i have a huge spreadsheet one of my ta's made us! it's more of a reference than anything else, but it has a lot of important info we did dissections on humans though so not sure how helpful that is for your course

 

here's the link

 

I don't know what your class is like, but when I took anatomy this is what I did:

 

 

• Anatomy is all about repetition so flashcards, anatomy games, online quizzes with pictures help.
• For memorizing muscle names, I used a combination of fill-in-the-blanks and renting out my school's plastic muscle models. You can also find quirky ways to remember things. (I'll post my techniques if I can dig up my old anatomy notes lol)

 

similar to this:

 

 

• as for memorizing what each muscle does, it's best know where everything is first and tick words to jog the memory! Let's use your example, the extensor digitorum longus muscle dorsiflexes the ankles and extends the toes: "digitorum" think of "digit"---> "digit" think of toes or fingers, etc etc. Trust me, you need to nail down the placement of each muscle first before focusing on what it does because it'll be easier for you in the long run. The names and placements will tell you what each muscle does (along with the tendon of course)

this is so helpful, thank you! But how would you recommend remembering where a muscle is in relation to other muscles? For example I know the semimembranous is deep to the semitendinosis and the semitendinosis is superficial to the semimembranous because my professor says to think of the t in semitendinosis as "top" so that's how I remember, but is there a neat trick like that with other muscles in relation to their surrounding muscles?

 

my school is lame and doesn't have plastic muscle models to rent out, they only have bone boxes that we can rent out from the library and that's it, and we're already past the skeletal system, haha. And for our lab we're dissecting cats and while most of the muscles in the cat are the same as the muscles in a human there are muscles in cats that don't exist in humans and vice versa (also the gluteus maximus is tiny in the cat compared to a human's, while the gluteus medius is bigger in the cat compared to a human).

 

that being said the axial/facial muscles were a lot easier for me to learn than the appendicular muscles. I'm struggling so much with the appendicular muscles right now |D;

[uzukii]

I previously took a veterinary medical terminology course a while back but unfortunately I think that's only helpful for animal anatomy and not human anatomy, haha.

 

 

 

this is so helpful, thank you! But how would you recommend remembering where a muscle is in relation to other muscles? For example I know the semimembranous is deep to the semitendinosis and the semitendinosis is superficial to the semimembranous because my professor says to think of the t in semitendinosis as "top" so that's how I remember, but is there a neat trick like that with other muscles in relation to their surrounding muscles?

 

my school is lame and doesn't have plastic muscle models to rent out, they only have bone boxes that we can rent out from the library and that's it, and we're already past the skeletal system, haha. And for our lab we're dissecting cats and while most of the muscles in the cat are the same as the muscles in a human there are muscles in cats that don't exist in humans and vice versa (also the gluteus maximus is tiny in the cat compared to a human's, while the gluteus medius is bigger in the cat compared to a human).

 

that being said the axial/facial muscles were a lot easier for me to learn than the appendicular muscles. I'm struggling so much with the appendicular muscles right now |D;

Here's a few tips and tricks for you. Another tip for anatomy, Google is your best friend

[FAEV]

It's been a while since I took a class like this but I'm the type to just stare at diagrams and try and memorize them that way XD but flashcards and those anatomy games and quizzes sound helpful.

 

and if I remember correctly we had to dissect a fetal pig

[Sana Minatozaki]

yes i like to study the anatomy of  pretty guys