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The quadriceps femoris.
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What is your thigh muscle called?
Your thigh muscle is called your Quadricep.
Which muscle will allow you to grip a horse's back with your thighs?
The quadriceps are the muscles used to grip a horse's back when riding on a horse. This muscle is sometimes called the thigh muscles.
What three muscle extends the thigh and flexes the knee?
The muscle of the thigh are classified into three groups, anterior group, posterior group, and interior or adductors group. There are four muscle on the anterior group - quadriceps femoris- and their function is to extend the knee or extend the thigh depend on what part of the muscle don't move. Those muscle are the rectus femorarlis, vastu intermedius, vastu medialis, and vastus lateralis. The muscle that flex the knee are located on the back of the thigh and form the posterior group. They are the biceps femoris, semitendinousus, and the semimembranosus, better known as Hamstring.
What are the three muscles that extend thigh and flex knee?
The muscle of the thigh are classified into three groups, anterior group, posterior group, and interior or adductors group. There are four muscle on the anterior group - quadriceps femoris- and their function is to extend the knee or extend the thigh depend on what part of the muscle don't move. Those muscle are the rectus femorarlis, vastu intermedius, vastu medialis, and vastus lateralis. The muscle that flex the knee are located on the back of the thigh and form the posterior group. They are the biceps femoris, semitendinousus, and the semimembranosus, better known as Hamstring.
What is the name of the back of the thigh?
The muscle in the back of the thigh is the hamstring, or the biceps femoris to be technical.
Where is the ham string?
Your ham string is a muscel in your upper thigh you have 2 one in each thigh and when you stand up with your legs together they are the muscels that touch each other in your thighs.
What isLong muscle down the back of thigh?
sartorius
You pulled a muscle in your left butt cheek and upper back thigh What muscle is this and how can you?
it's called a pain in the butt....you should then turn the other cheek...
Name a skeletal muscle in the leg?
The thigh has three sets of strong muscles: the hamstring muscles in the back of the thigh, the quadriceps muscles in the front, and the adductor muscles on the sides.
What is the other name for thigh?
The muscle in the back of the thigh is the hamstring, or the biceps femoris to be technical.
What are the muscle on the back of your calf called?
The thigh is comprised of quite a few muscles. The main muscles that people usually refer to fall into two categories: the hamstring group and the quadriceps group. In the hamstring group (which is the back of the thigh) are the biceps femoris, semitendinosus, and semimembranosus. In the quadriceps group (front of thigh) are the rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, vastus intermedius, and vastus medialis. Some other muscles that are on the thigh are the sartorius, iliopsoas, adductor longus, adductor magnus, and gracilis.
What is the muscle in the back of the thigh?
hamstring group, made up of semitendinosus, semimembranosus, and the biceps femoris.
