Chapter 4-5A&P

Question 1

Three types of muscle tissue in the body

Answer 1

Skeletal, cardiac, smooth

Question 2

What does the cardiac muscle do?

Answer 2

Pumps blood though out the body.

Question 3

Smooth muscle

Answer 3

Moves fluid and food matter

Question 4

Skeletal muscle

Answer 4

40% to 50% of body weight- attached to skeleton and responsible for skeletal movement and stabilization of body movement.

-movement, generate heat

Question 5

What are muscle fibers?

Answer 5

Aka muscle cell

Question 6

Fascicles are

Answer 6

Bundles of muscle fibers surrounded by additional connective tissue.

Question 7

The perimysium

Answer 7

Attaches adjacent fascicles together in addition to carrying blood vessels and nerves to the muscle fibers.

Question 8

An whole muscle surrounded by connective tissue is called?

Answer 8

Epimysium

Question 9

What is the functional unit of a muscle?

Answer 9

Sarcomere

Question 10

Bella’s palsy or facial droop without nerve damage. Massage is?

Answer 10

Indicated

Question 11

The pathology commonly manifests between the ages of 20-40 and is degeneration of the myelin sheath.

Answer 11

MS

Question 12

When it is difficult for muscle to contract even when stimulated by a nerve, it is called?

Answer 12

Muscle fatigue

Question 13

The_ carries nerve impulses away from the cell body of a neuron.

Answer 13

Axon

Question 14

These reflexes protect muscles from being over stretched and torn?

Answer 14

Stretch reflex

Question 15

Tricep means

Answer 15

Three headed

Question 16

This compound is an end product of anaerobic respiration and many lead to muscle soreness.

Answer 16

Lactic acid

Question 17

Part of the brain that contains respiratory and cardiac centers?

Answer 17

Medulla oblangata

Question 18

_ are specialized proprioceptors within the belly of a muscle that detects change in the length of the muscles.

Answer 18

Muscle spindles

Question 19

The nerves that carry impulses from the receptors to the central nervous system. Are known as?

Answer 19

Sensory nerves

Question 20

A neuron and all the muscle fibers it innervates is called?

Answer 20

Motor unit

Question 21

This type of contraction causes muscle to shorten and produce force.

Answer 21

Concentric

Question 22

Classically the brain and spinal cord together are known as?

Answer 22

Central nervous system

Question 23

Cerebral Palsy is due to injury to the brain when?

Answer 23

Birth/ infancy

Question 24

In which autoimmune disease does the immune system attack the neuromuscular junction?

Answer 24

Myasthenia gravis

Question 25

Bundles of muscles are called?

Answer 25

Fascicles

Question 26

The fight or flight response

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Sympathetic

Question 27

Stroke is also known as

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Cerebrovascular accident

Question 28

Carpal tunnel syndrome is due to compression of the _ nerve

Answer 28

Median

Question 29

These complex proprioceptors detect change in the muscle length

Answer 29

Muscle spindles

Question 30

A myoma is

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Tumor of muscle

Question 31

The point of contact between a neuron and a muscle fiber is called

Answer 31

Neuromuscular junction

Question 32

This pathology of the nervous system is caused by degeneration of the myelin sheath, and is a progressive disease.

Answer 32

Ms

Question 33

Contractions where no change in length of the muscle but an increase in tension is called.

Answer 33

Isometric

Question 34

Massage is _ for meningitis

Answer 34

Contraindicated

Question 35

This type of pain can move along the same dermatone as the original site of pain.

Answer 35

Referred

Question 36

Lack of muscle usage can lead to _ which is a decrease in muscle cell size

Answer 36

Atrophy

Question 37

Nociceptors sense

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Pain

Question 38

The proprioceptors that monitor muscle tension are the ?

Answer 38

Golgi tendon organs

Question 39

Massage is _ for clients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( Lou Gehrig )

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Indicated with doctor

Question 40

A persistent involuntary contraction of a muscle that cannot be released voluntarily is called

Answer 40

Spasm

Question 41

What do muscle spindles measure

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Stretch

Question 42

Massage is _ for carpal tunnel

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Indicated

Question 43

Norepinephrine, dopamine, serotonin, and endorphins are all examples of

Answer 43

Neurotransmitters

Question 44

Sliding filament mechanism best describes the physiology of muscle_

Answer 44

Contraction

Question 45

Which term is used to describe a sustained contraction of a muscle?

Answer 45

Twitch

Question 46

When providing massage to a client with muscular dystrophy massage is

Answer 46

Indicated with dr

Question 47

There are _ many pairs of spinal nerves

Answer 47

31

Question 48

A crossbridge is formed when

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Myoslin heads attach to actin binding sites

Question 49

This type of pain is distant from the area of injury

Answer 49

Referred

Question 50

The main muscle that produces an action is called the

Answer 50

Agonist

Question 51

Thoracic outlet syndrome is caused by the impingement of .

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Brachial plexus

Question 52

A muscle that supports the action of other muscles is described as a

Answer 52

Synergist

Question 53

The neurons of the autonomic nervous system that innervates various organ systems such as digestive, respiratory, and cardiovascular are known as

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Somatic motor nerves

Question 54

The first step in the activation of the neuromuscular junction is

Answer 54

Nerve impulse

Question 55

Connects muscle to bone

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Tendon

Question 56

Group of genetic disorders leads to progressive deterioration of muscles

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Muscular dystrophy

Question 57

Resting tension in a muscle is called

Answer 57

Muscle tone