October 25, 2014. Ranking the greatest battleships of all time is a tad easier than ranking naval battles. Both involve comparing apples with oranges. But at least taking the measure of individual men-of-war involves comparing one apple with one orange.
This lumpy appearance results in the rectus abdominis muscles being referred to as the âsix-pack.â. The name rectus abdominis comes from the Latin words for âstraightâ and âabdominal,â indicating that its fibers run in a straight vertical line through the abdominal region of the body.... Click to read more below.
Three are flat, the external oblique, the internal oblique and the transversus abdominis, and one is a straplike muscle, the rectus abdominis. The fibers in each of these muscles run in a cross direction from one another in a way that maximizes the strength of the three muscles together (think of plywood).