Chapter 27 Musculoskeletal System Flashcards
The musculoskeletal system provides….
Frame work of human body
All body movement is coordinated between …..
The nervous system, bones, joints, muscles, ligaments, cartilage and tendons
Muscles are
Attached to bones and enable body movement (kinetics)
Skeletal muscles are voluntary where are the myocardium
Contracts rhythmically
Smooth muscles / visceral muscles are attached to or line
The organs
Muscle is
Specialized tissue that contracts when stimulated
Saromere is
One of the segments into which a fibril of striated muscle is divided
Myocyte are
The muscle cells
Bones are
Specialized form of dense connective tissue consisting of calcified intercellular substance that provides shape and support to the body
Cartilage is
Soft tissue lining joints; gives shape to ears and nose
Thick filaments
Made of protein called myosin, cylinder shaped and about 300 molecules of myosin per thick filament
Thin filaments are
Composed of 3 different proteins - actin, tropomyosin, troponin - look like strands of pearls twisted around each other
The 3 kinds of protein in thin filaments
Actin, tropomyosin, troponin
Muscular chemical switches that control interaction of actin and myosin during contraction of muscles are
Tropomyosin - long red like protein
Troponin - bead like protein complex
Chemical and physical interactions between actin and myosin cause
Sacromere length to shorten causing myocyte to concentrate
Main functions of muscles
Provide large and small movement, stabilize joints, maintain body posture, produce heat in body
Muscles produce ____% of the body’s heat by muscle contractions
85
Newborns have about _______ soft bones, eventually fusing together to form ______ adult bones.
300, 206
Some baby bones are made up of cartilage that slowly harden, by age
35 cartilage will have finished hardening into bone
5 bone categories
Flat, irregular, sesamid, short, long
Flat bones are
Generally more flat than round, ie rib bones
Irregular bones
Have no defined shape, ie vertebrae
Seasamoid bones
Cartilage and fibrous tissue mixed, these bones are found in joints and help lower friction and enhance joint movement, ie petella (knee cap)
Short bones
More cube shaped, ie carpals of the hand