Instructions
Print out the skeletal views. If you want them small enough to paste onto a 4 x 6 index card, you can just print out this entire webpage. To print them larger, you might have to copy and paste the picture onto a WORD document and pull the corners of the pasted picture to make sure the picture takes up the whole 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper. Or you can right-click on the image and click SAVE AS a bitmap image; name it and put it in your own folder in your documents. When all the images are transferred to your computer, you can print them all out at once. Make sure your printer is set to FIT TO PAGE so the image is as large as it can be.
Then print out the muscles that go with each of the skeleton views. You might want to clip out the key and paste it on the BACK of the SKELETAL view so that it is out of sight but there if you need it. Keep your cut muscles inside their own separate envelopes and label the envelope so you know which skeletal view to use that set of muscles with.
Cut out the muscles and write the origin, insertion, and action on the BACK of each muscle where you can't see it unless you need to. The muscles should fit onto their corresponding skeletal views exactly. Dashed lines indicate that the muscle continues behind a boney area on the skeleton. Make sure when you place the cut-out muscles on the skeleton that you put them in the proper layers. Know which muscles sit on top of others.
The muscles are shaped a bit unusually because they are designed to emphasize the origins and insertions. For instance, the latissimus dorsi muscle on the posterior torso view is shaped to emphasize the origin on the lower thoracic and lumbar vertebrae. The trapezius on the same view shows hooks to emphasize the insertion on the spine of the scapula as well as the clavicle.
Be sure that you can identify each muscle on the cat, the plastic models of the human, the surface anatomy book, and the body building magazines.
Also be sure that you can identify each muscle from an anterior, posterior and lateral view! For instance, latissimus dorsi and teres major are posterior muscles that can also be seen from the anterior view of the torso.
