LECOM Anatomy Exam 1 Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update 2025/2026

LECOM Anatomy Exam 1 Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update 2025/2026 plantar fascitis - Answers The first step in the morning hurts the bottom of foot the most Ligaments of arch deep to superficial - Answers plantar aponeurosis, short and long planar ligament, plantar calcaneal ligament (spring) extensor hood of foot - Answers attachment for lumbricals and interossi, extensor tendons pass through intrinsic muscles of foot innervated by median plantar n - Answers abductor hallicus, flexor digitorum brevis, flexor hallicus brevis, lumbrical 1 (branch of the tibial n) intrinsic muscles of foot innervated by lateral plantar n - Answers abductor digiti minimi, adductor hallicus, interossi, lumbricals 2-5 dorsal venous drainage of foot - Answers dorsal arch to greater (medial) and lesser saphenous vein cutaneous innervation of foot - Answers lateral: l: : ar medial: dial al plantar: lateral plantar. between 1 and 2 toes deep fibular. dorsum of foot: superficial fibular. what nerve can be compressed in tarsal tunnel - Answers tibular n Morton's neuroma - Answers compression of nerve passing through metatarsals (possibly due to running) most likely between 3 and 4 intrinsic muscles of dorsum of foot innervated by deep fibular n. - Answers extensor digitorum brevis, extensor hallicus brevis dorsal pedis artery is palpated between - Answers extensor hallicus longus and extensor digitorum logus (branches from anterior tibial a) talipes equinovares - Answers congenital club foot where the infants foot is rotated medially and inverted borders of popliteal fossa and floor of - Answers UL: biceps femoris UM: semimembranosus L: gatronemius F: popliteus, joint, fibula and tibia contents of popliteal fossa (anterior to posterior) - Answers popliteal artery, popliteal v, tibial n (also present common fibular n, sural n) place where nerve is susceptible because it is superficial muscles of lateral compartment of leg BS, innervation, function - Answers fibularis longus and brevis: superficial fibular n, fibular a distally, anterior tibial artery proximally Avulsion on 5th metatarsal is most likely caused by - Answers fibularis brevis What nerve is susceptible to injury at fibula head - Answers fibular n muscles of anterior leg (function and distal attachment) - Answers extensor digitorum longus: extension of digits, dorsiflex attaches @ distal phalanx 2-5 tibialis anterior: strongest dorsiflexor, inversion, arch support attaches @ medial cuneiforma and 1st metatarsal extensor hallicus longus: extension of big toe, dorsiflex attaches @ distal phalanx of 1 fibularis tertius: eversion, dorsiflex attaches @ base of 5th metatarsal muscles of anterior leg (innervation, BS) - Answers deep fibular n, anterior tibial a manifestation of common fibular n injury - Answers foot drop with steppage gait, circumduction or waddle muscles of posterior compartment of leg innervation - Answers tibial n superficial muscles of posterior compartment of leg (function and proximal attachment) - Answers attach @ achilies tendon grastrocnemius: medial and lateral epicondyles, flex knee and plantarflex soleus: tibia soleal line, plantarflex plantaris: lateral supracondylar line of femur, flexes knee and plantarflex deep muscles of posterior leg (proximal, distal, function) - Answers popliteus: lateral femoral condyle to tibia, laterally rotates femur on fixed tibia, flexes knee flexor digitorum longus: tibia to base of phalanges 2-4, flexes toes flexor hallicus longus: fibula to distal phalanx of big toe, flexes big toe tibialis posterior: tibia and fibula to navicular and medial cuneiform, plantar flexion, inversion, arch support Tom Dick and very nervous Harry, location and corresponding tissue - Answers anterior to posterior, posterior to medial epicondyle (tarsal tunnel) tibialis posterior, flexor digitorum longus, posterior tibial a, v, tibial n, flexor hallicus longus drainage from superficial venous arch - Answers great saphenous v (lies anterior to medial malleolus artery in ligament of the head of the femur - Answers not enough to supply head of femur transverse acetabular ligament - Answers bridges inferior region of acetabular notch acetabular labrum - Answers increases the concave surface of hip socket to decrease risk of dislocation iliofemoral ligament - Answers connects ilium to femur, prevents hyperextension (aka ligamen