{"id":1222,"date":"2015-11-19T18:16:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T01:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2016-03-01T20:05:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T03:05:06","slug":"cat-muscles-sartorius-gracilis-and-semitendinosus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/2015\/11\/19\/cat-muscles-sartorius-gracilis-and-semitendinosus\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat Muscles &#8211; Sartorius, Gracilis, and Semitendinosus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sartorius muscle is the longest muscle in the human body, extending from the hip to the inside of the thigh. \u00a0On the cat, this muscle is much more compact, and covers the thigh and knee joint as a superficial muscle. \u00a0 It is shown on the photo below marked with a green pin.<\/p>\n<p>The gracilis muscle is also a superficial muscle located below the sartorius.<\/p>\n<p>The semitendinosis muscle on humans is commonly called the hamstring. \u00a0On the cat, find this muscle by probing behind the knee joint.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/cat-leg-muscles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1223\" src=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/cat-leg-muscles-500x281.jpg\" alt=\"sartorius\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/cat-leg-muscles-500x281.jpg 500w, http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/cat-leg-muscles-250x141.jpg 250w, http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/cat-leg-muscles-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/cat-leg-muscles-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/cat-leg-muscles.jpg 1472w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Green pin = sartorius<br \/>\nYellow pin (top) = gracilis<br \/>\nYellow pin (lower) = gastrocnemius<br \/>\nBlack pin = tibialis anterior<br \/>\nPink pin = semitendinosis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sartorius muscle is the longest muscle in the human body, extending from the hip to the inside of the thigh. \u00a0On the cat, this muscle is much more compact, and covers the thigh and knee joint as a superficial muscle. \u00a0 It is shown on the photo below marked with a green pin. The gracilis muscle is also a superficial muscle located below the sartorius. The semitendinosis muscle on humans is commonly called the hamstring. \u00a0On the cat, find this muscle by probing behind the knee joint. Green pin = sartorius Yellow pin (top) = gracilis Yellow pin (lower) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[60,195,54,196,58],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anatomical","tag-cat","tag-gracilis","tag-muscles","tag-sartorius","tag-semitendinosis","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1348,"href":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions\/1348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}