Muscular System Web Sites Biology 11

Saddleback College

Dr. Jane Horlings

Charlie Harrison’s Human Anatomy Home Page (Saddleback Collge). Useful photographs of cat dissections, our models and more. Click on the muscle name for a photo with labels.

http://iserver.saddleback.cc.ca.us/faculty/charrison/anat01.html

Muscular System. Great photos of cat musculature from Biology 129, Penn State.

http://www.bio.psu.edu/people/faculty/strauss/anatomy/musc/muscular.htm

Muscle Anatomy. More cat photos and includes a good paragraph describing their location and how to identify them! From the University of Wisconsin at La Cross. This includes detailed descriptions.

http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/APlab/Table_of_Contents/Lab_09/lab_09.html

Cat Images, from Illinois Valley Community College. I like these because of the good quality of the photos, and the nice labels/tables. Might make nice study sheets if you have the color ink to spare! There’s a short quiz/practical to take, as well.

http://www.ivcc.edu/caley/107/Index_Page_Links/cat_muscles_menu.htm

Cat Muscles, from Midlands Technical College. Can hide labels or show. Good icon at upper right shows you where you are on the cat body! Pull down menus take you to different views on the cat body. You can hide labels without hiding the lines to make quizzes for yourself for labeling.

http://www.midlandstech.com/science/kelleherk/210/LabMaterials/catmuscles.html

Central Florida Community College. Online Cat dissection. Very clear unlabeled photos! Why not print some of these and make your own study sheets?

http://home1.gte.net/imagine/chest.html

Cat Muscles. From Tyler Junior College.

http://science.tjc.edu/images/cat_muscles/Index.htm

Cat Anatomy Tutorial from Kenyon College, Gambier, OH. Click on Thoracic Muscles and Limb Muscles.

http://biology.kenyon.edu/heithausp/cat-tutorial/


Virtual Cat, from Delaware County Community College. Click on the Cat Box, then on Muscular System.

http://www.dccc.edu/departments/biology/virtuals/vcat.html

Muscular System. Virtual Cat Dissection Site. Also from Penn State, but not as nice as the Strauss site! Click on Superficial Muscles, the Deep Muscles. And they can’t spell “triceps”! J

http://bio.bd.psu.edu/cat/Muscular_System/index.htm

Cat Muscles! Show labels after quizzing yourself in this nice progression of slide/photos. This is pretty useful site, and a quick interactive way to test yourself.

http://web.baypath.edu/biology/cat/muscle2.html

Cat Muscle Dissection Videos. Quicktime videos of skinning, musculature of selected parts of the body from a Zoology class.

http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/courses.hp/zoo.225/Exam/test.htm

Web Based Cat Dissection Review Tutorial. From McGraw-Hill and Penn State University. The Muscular Dissection Chapter is a free demo. It is very nicely done with much detail and information.

http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/ap/cat_dissect/cat_demo/index.html

Innerbody.com. This has lots of information to look through, and the initial screen is a fun one that you can do mouseovers on body to see muscle names. OK for review.

http://www.innerbody.com/image/musfov.html

Complete Muscle Tables of the Human Body. This site contains comprehensive information on human muscles. More than you’d ever want to memorize!

http://www.ptcentral.com/muscles/

Cat Muscles. Unlabeled photographs with prompts of what you should be able to identify. Good for self-quizzing.

http://www.franklincollege.edu/bioweb/A&Pfiles/catmus1.htm

Muscle Models:

Biology 210. From Midlands Technical College. THE best site out there for models—and models are really just cartoons of reality….. good stuff here! Use the drop-down menus to navigate. You can show or hide labels and/or the lines. If you hide labels and leave on the lines, you can create quizzes for self-testing.

http://www.midlandstech.com/science/kelleherk/210/LabMaterials/muscles.html

Biology 210. From Midlands Technical College. A pretty in-depth quiz on muscles on models. Good for self-testing

http://www.midlandstech.com/science/kelleherk/210/LabMaterials/PracticeQuiz4.html

Photographs of models showing musculature. From Palomar College.

http://daphne.palomar.edu/ccarpenter/models/model%20index.htm#Muscles

Muscles Tutorial. Another web site that shows muscle models.

http://www.gwc.maricopa.edu/class/bio201/muscle/mustut.htm

Cerritos College Anatomy. Models. Click on the model you want (torso, arm, leg etc). Head/neck muscles are very detailed! Click on a muscle, and its name appears in the box below. Pretty quick and useful way to quiz yourself!

http://www.cerritosanatomy.com/index.html

Histology:

Muscular System. Jay Doc Histo Web. The University of Kansas Histology site. You can click on cartilage and bone to view photomicrographs and electron micrographs of histological sections. Expanded views show much detail.

http://www.kumc.edu/instruction/medicine/anatomy/histoweb/muscular/muscular.htm

Histology of Muscle Tissue. A few nice photomicrographs and accompanying descriptive text.

http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/APlab/Table_of_Contents/Lab_10/lab_10.html

Muscle Tissues. From North Harris College. Worth a quick look.

http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/tissue/muscle.html

Muscle. From Rutgers. Great site!!! Lots of text information accompanying the photomicrographs.

http://lifesci.rutgers.edu/~babiarz/muscle.htm

LUMEN Virtual Histology. From the Loyola University Medical Education Network.

http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/Histo/frames/h_frame7.html

Muscle Histology. A good 1 page summary of muscle types.

http://www.unomaha.edu/hpa/2740musclehistology.html

General Resources (might want to bookmark these):

Anatomy and Physiology WWW Sites. From North Harris College, Houston, Texas. What a resource! Check out the links on this page!
http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/ap2.html

Links to Human Anatomy Web Pages. From Bluegrass Community and Technical College. Among other things, links listed by system, including a good list of histology links.

http://www.bluegrass.kctcs.edu/LCC/BSN/BIO/BiologyLabs/AnatomyLinks.html
Updated 10 February 2007 Dr. Jane Horlings; Saddleback College