I just spent four hours studying, restudying, alternatingly drooling (read: sleeping) on my anatomy books. I have all told, about five different books opened as I hopscotched from one book to another. The target of my intense study? The back.
The more I study this gross anatomy stuff, the more impressed I am with the intricate designs that make up the human body. The back of the average human is sheathed in layer upon layer of muscles, some traversing diagonally right, some shooting up diagonally left, most of the muscles are paired, that is, you have a right and left version of the same muscle. Actually maybe all - I've yet to identify a muscle that is the lone ranger. Each muscle is there for a different purpose or function. Now the average couch potatoe (aka moi) do not take anywhere even remotely close to enough advantage of all his core muscles. But if you observe a dancer in action, you can bet that all those extensors and flexors are working hard to allow that dancer to create such beauty with her body movements.
Anyhoo, I shall retire for the evening and leave you to contemplate on the magnificence of such objects as semispinalis capitis, rhomboid majors, and my personal favorites: serratus posterior inferior and serratus posterior superior. Those good old profs of yore who made up these anatomical terms certainly didn't have economy of letters in mind at that time.
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