Chapter 11 Flashcards
Produce skeletal movements
Muscle contractions pull on tendons and move bones of the skeleton
Maintain body posture and position
Tension and skeletal muscles maintain body posture
Support soft tissue
Internal organs
Guard entrances and exits
Openings of digestion and urinary tract
Maintenance of body temperature
Heat released by working muscles
Store nutrients
Proteins are broken down and used for energy
Cardiac muscle
- example
- what do cells look like
- Number of nuclei
- are striations present
- voluntary or involuntary
- Heart
- Cells are branched, intercalated discs
- Single nucleus
- Yes
- involuntary
Skeletal muscle
- example
- what do cells look like
- Number of nuclei
- are striations present
- voluntary or involuntary
- Skeletal muscles
- cells are very long and cylindrical
- Multinucleated
- yes
- Voluntary muscle
Smooth muscle example -what do cells look like -Number of nuclei -are striations present -voluntary or involuntary
- Walls of blood vessels, lining digestive and urinary and reproductive organs
- cells are short and spindle-shaped
- Single nucleus
- No
- Involuntary muscle
Arrangement of skeletal muscle cells
- What do they form
- what are the patterns based on
- Four major patterns
Form bundles called fascicles
- Organization of the fascicles
- parallel, convergent, circular, Pennate
Six functions of the muscular system
- Produce skeletal movements
- Maintain body posture and position
- Support soft tissue
- Guard entrances and exits
- Maintenance of body temperature
- Store nutrients
Parallel
- definition
- common?
- contraction
- fascicles are parallel to long axis of the muscle
- most muscles in the body are this type
- muscle shortens and gets larger in diameter
convergent
- definition
- contraction
- fascicles extend over a broad area and converge on one attachment site; very versatile
- contraction of different portions can change direction of pull
circular
- definition
- contraction
- fascicles are arranged as concentric rings/circles around an opening
- contraction causes diameter of opening to decrease
Pennate
- definition
- unipennate
- bipennate
- multipennate
- contraction
- fascicles form a common angle with tendon
- all fascicles are on same side
- fascicles are on 2 sides
- tendon branches
- cannot move tendon as far as parallel muscle but can produce more tension because have more muscle fiber
3 Key principles on how muscles produce movement
- Muscles produce movement by pulling on bones
- Muscles operate as part of a lever system
- Muscles work in groups rather than individually
Muscles produce movement by pulling on bones
-attachment sites
origin and insertion
origin
place where fixed end attaches to a bone, cartilage or connective tissue
insertion
site where movable end attaches
what happens to the origin and insertion during contraction
muscle contraction causes muscle to shorten and moves the insertion toward the origin
lever
- definition
- when does a lever move
- rigid structure that moves on a fixed point called the fulcrum
- when the applied force is sufficient to overcome the resistance
- lever
- fulcrum
- applied force
- load
- bone
- joint
- muscle
- weight of an object held, weight of a limb or weight of the entire body
3 classes of levers
- first class lever
- second class lever
- third class lever
- fulcrum lies between the applied force and the load
- load is located between the applied force and the fulcrum (least common class)
- force is applied between the load and fulcrum (most common class)
3 roles of the muscles
- agonist
- antagonist
- synergist
agonist
- prime mover
- muscle whose contraction is chiefly responsible for producing a particular movement
antagonist
muscle who action opposes that of a particular agonist
Synergist
- helps a larger agonist work more efficiently
- may provide additional pull or may stabilize the origin
how muscles are named (examples)
- direction of muscle fibers
- location
- position
- shape
- size
- origin and insertion
- number of origins
- action
- oblique, rectus
- abdominus, brachialis, femoris
- lateralis, interus, exterus
- deltoid, orbicularis, trapezuis
- longus, magnus
- sternocleidomastoid
- biceps, triceps, quadriceps
- adductor
5 muscles of the head
- frontalis
- Orbicularis oris
- temporalis
- Sternocleidomastoid
- masseter