This question was brought up in my massage therapy class. Why is the the calf muscle named that?
Posted by admin on Jan 12, 2009
Its name is derived from the Greek, gastroknemia, "the belly of the leg" or calf- from "gaster" (gastr-), belly, + "kneme," leg).
The word "calf" comes through the Anglo-Saxon, it is thought, from the Indo-European "gelbh" meaning to bunch up, as do the muscles of the calf.
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Its name is derived from the Greek, gastroknemia, "the belly of the leg" or calf- from "gaster" (gastr-), belly, + "kneme," leg).
The word "calf" comes through the Anglo-Saxon, it is thought, from the Indo-European "gelbh" meaning to bunch up, as do the muscles of the calf.
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