Chapter 10-11 Review

Question 1

Most skeletal muscles remain in a state of __

Answer 1

relaxation

Question 2

what muscle is found in the digestive tract, blood vessels, bladder, airways, & uterus?

Answer 2

smooth muscle

Question 3

what muscle is only found in the heart?

Answer 3

cardiac muscle

Question 4

what muscle is attached to bone & causes movement of the body?

Answer 4

skeletal muscle

Question 5

this is a form of food poisoning, death can result due to paralysis of the respiratory muscles

Answer 5

botulism

Question 6

a disease caused by the clostridium tetani bacterium that causes severe muscle spasms & sustained contractions

Answer 6

tetanus “lockjaw”

Question 7

nerve transmission is poor resulting in an increasing muscular weakness

Answer 7

myasthenia gravis

Question 8

muscle enlargement is also called __

Answer 8

hypertrophy

Question 9

TRUE OR FALSE: the division of the nervous system that carries signals from nerve endings to the central nervous system is the sensory (afferent) division

Answer 9

true

Question 10

the central nervous system includes the

Answer 10

brain & spinal cord

Question 11

the three function of the nervous system are

Answer 11

sensing, integrating, & responding