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Achilles Tendon
- Location: Hind leg
- connects gastrocnemius to calcaneus bone
- Other: connects to heel
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Adductor Femoris
- Location: Hind leg, medial
- Origin: Pubis
- Insertion: Femur
- Movement: Adduction of thigh
- Other: short and fat, 2 parts but one muscle, below adductor longus
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Adductor Longus
- Location: Hind leg, medial
- Origin: Pubis
- Insertion: femur
- Movement: adduction of thigh
- Other: long and skiny, in groin
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Extensor Digitorum Longus
- Location: Lower hind limb
- Origin: Tibia
- Insertion: digits
- Movement: extends toes, straightens them
- Other: only digit in leg, front of shin
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Gastrocnemius
- Location: Hind limb, lower leg
- Origin: Femur (back)
- Insertion: Calcaneus (heel)
- Movement: Extensor of foot, plantar flexion
- Other: Calf, upper traingular muscle, behind knee
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Sartorius
- Location: Hind limb, upper and medial
- Origin: Ilium
- Insertion: Tibia
- Movement: adducts the thigh
- Other: above gracilis, innter thigh and up
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What is muscle number 2
Gracilis
- Location: Hind limb, upper and medial
- Origin: pubis
- Insertion: tibia
- Movement: adducts thigh
- Other: behind sartorius, innger thigh, thin and long
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Peroneus Longus
- Location: lower hind limb
- Origin: tibia and fibula
- Insertion: metatarsals
- Movement: extend foot, plantar flexion
- Other: next to soleus``
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Soleus
- Location: lower hind limb, on back
- Origin: fibula
- Insertion: calcanues (heel)
- Movement: extensor of foot, plantar felxion
- Other: calf, works with gastrocnemuius, lower shank in front
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Tibialis Anterior
- Location: Lower hind leg
- Origin: tibia
- Insertion: metatarsal
- Movement: flexes foot, dorsi flexion
- Other: opposite gastrocnemius, on tibia, on tront
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Vastus Lateralis
- Location: Medial, upper hind leg
- Origin: feur
- Insertion: tibia
- Movement: extends knee, straighten
- Other: opposite biceps femoris, top of thigh line
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Rectus Femoris
- Location: upper hind leg
- Origin: ilium
- Insertion: tibia
- Movement: extends knee, flex hip, kick leg
- Other: along top of femur
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