Übersetzung für "Rectus femoris" in Englisch

Because rectus femoris attaches to the ilium, it is also a flexor of the hip.

The rectus femoris muscle has two muscle heads.

Usually, this muscle part is completely covered by the rectus femoris muscle.

The rectus femoris muscle also can bend in the hip joint, however, its effect is relatively weak.

The rectus femoris is a direct antagonist to the hamstrings, at the hip and at the knee.

The quadriceps femoris muscle group and rectus femoris are both responsible for knee extension while the rectus femoris also contributes to flexion at the hip.

This stresses, like everybody well educated knows, the downward parts of the Musculi vastus laterales, vastus mediales and rectus femoris on a very special manner.

The superior, strong edge of the patella serves as insertion surface for the quadriceps femoris muscle, to be more exact, for two of its muscle heads: the rectus femoris muscle and the vastus intermedius muscle .

While this one causes a stretching in the hips while tensing, the hipsare bent by the m. rectus femoris (rectus thigh muscle, a part of the m. quadriceps femoris).

In connection with this, parallel measurements of muscle activity showed that applying the pelvic orthosis caused the contractions of the rectus femoris muscle to decrease in strength.