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It took us a very short time to learn that the longest muscle in the human body is the sartorius. In fact, the answer presented itself in the text of the first search result, after we typed "longest muscle" into the Yahoo! search box. The text on the results page stated "Did you know? The longest muscle in your body is the sartorius," but when we arrived at the web page from innerbody.com there was nothing more. Suspecting that somewhere on the site we'd find additional information about human anatomy, we decided to shorten the URL in the browser window in order to locate the front page of the site. (The following procedure is perfectly safe to try at home.)
Here's how to hack web addresses like a pro: - Place the cursor at the end of the URL that appears in the white field at the top of your browser. This is labeled "Address" if you're using Internet Explorer, "Location" in Netscape Navigator.
- Use the backspace key to delete part of the web address, thereby editing the URL back to its root domain, in this case, www.innerbody.com.
- Hit "Enter" on your keyboard.
Voila! We arrived at the welcome page for a site called Inner Learning Online and selected a link to Human Anatomy Online. After a lot of poking and prodding, we found a diagram of the human muscular system
and a description of the sartorius or tailor's muscle (sartorius is Latin for tailor). It's a long, ribbon-like muscle that "slants across the front of the upper thigh from the side to the middle and then descends vertically to the knee," flexing, rotating, and abducting along the way to enable the cross-legged sitting posture that is known as the "tailor's position." A physiology course curriculum page from the University of Arizona about muscle anatomy confirmed that the sartorius, a muscle of the anterior hip and thigh group that is connected to the ilium and the tibia, is the longest.
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