Gastrocnemius

Works upper and lower legs quadriceps, hamstrings, gastrocnemius ❋ Bob Greene (2010)

Compared with a control group of women who usually wore flat shoes, the stiletto wearers 'Achilles tendons were about 20% stiffer, and the fibers of the gastrocnemius muscle in their calves were about 12% shorter. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The other major muscle group in the leg is the gastrocnemius, the big calf muscle. ❋ KELLY TRAVER (2009)

Together, the quadriceps, hamstrings, and gastrocnemius form the big-muscle trio that surrounds and supports your knee. ❋ KELLY TRAVER (2009)

The symptoms of "tennis leg" most commonly results from an acute rupture of the Achilles tendon and less frequently, by a tear in one of the calf muscles, the gastrocnemius muscle, or the plantaris tendon. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Example is when the gastrocnemius (calf) muscle raises the weight of the body on the toes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And whether he would have ever escaped out of the town, it is hard to say, if the dog had not taken it into his head that they were going to pull his master in pieces, and tackled them so sharply about the gastrocnemius muscle, that he gave them some business of their own to think of at last; and while they were rubbing their bitten calves, Tom and the dog got safe away. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Then we do spinal reflexes - biceps tendon, triceps tendon, crossed extensor reflex, extensor carpi radialis, withdrawl reflex, patellar tendon, gastrocnemius, cranial tibial, and sciatic reflexes. ❋ 1 Dinosaur (2007)

Cross-section from the gastrocnemius muscle of the horse. ❋ Unknown (1967)

It still is so when the afferent nerve chosen is homogeneous in the sense that it is a purely muscular afferent, e.g. the afferent from one head of the gastrocnemius muscle. ❋ Unknown (1965)

A dose of about 2 gamma of acetylcholine, thus injected at close range into the vessels of a cat's gastrocnemius, produced a contraction with a maximal tension equal to that of the twitch produced by a maximal motor nerve volley, and of a rapidity but little less than that of the motor nerve twitch. ❋ Unknown (1965)

Now cut out entirely the large muscle of the calf of the leg (the gastrocnemius), but leave attached to it the nerve, the lower tendon, and the bones of the knee. ❋ Francis M. Walters (N/A)

_Of the lower leg_: The _tibialis anticus_ on the front side, exterior to the tibia, and the _gastrocnemius_, the large muscle in the calf of the leg. ❋ Francis M. Walters (N/A)

The soleus, so named from resembling a sole-fish, is a muscle of broad, flattened shape, lying beneath the gastrocnemius. ❋ Albert F. Blaisdell (N/A)

If the model be directed to stand on tiptoe, both of the large muscles of the calf, the _gastrocnemius_ and _soleus_, can be distinguished. ❋ Albert F. Blaisdell (N/A)

On the back of the leg the most important muscles, forming what is known as the calf, are the gastrocnemius and the soleus. ❋ Albert F. Blaisdell (N/A)