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Chapter 4: Muscle Tissue Flashcards

1
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Elaborate networks of actin and myosin filaments that bring about movement or contraction in all cell types:

A

Myofilaments

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2
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Types of muscle

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Voluntary and involuntary

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3
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Packaged by connective tissue sheets into organs

These muscles form the flesh of the body

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Skeletal muscle tissue

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4
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Long cyndrical cells that contain peripherally located nuclei

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Muscle fibers

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5
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Contractions help propel blood through the blood vessels to all parts of the body.

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Cardiac muscles

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6
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Propels substances or objects (food, urine, a baby) along internal passageways, involuntary control

Have spindle shaped (elongated) cells with central nuclei; cells arrange closely to form sheets

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Smooth muscle

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7
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Highly specialized nerve cells that generate and conduct nerve impulses

Respond to stimuli (processes called dendrites)
Transmits electrical impulses (processes called axons)``

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Neurons

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8
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Dry membrane

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Cutaneous

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9
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Wet membranes

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Mucous and serous

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10
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Dense connective tissue proliferates to form scar tissue

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Fibrosis

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Steps to tissue repair

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Inflammation sets the stage
Organization restores the blood supply
Regeneration and fibrosis effect permanent repair

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12
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The outmost layer (connective tissue) of the muscle

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Epimysium

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13
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Muscle fibers are bunched together in bundles

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Fascicles

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14
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Surrounding fascicles there is the connective tissue surrounding the bundle

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Perimysium

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15
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Surrounds individual muscles cells

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Endomysium

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16
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Muscle fibers are wrapped in a cell membrane called _______

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Sarcolemma

17
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Inside each muscle fiber, there are tiny rods. A complex organelle composed of myofilaments.

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Myofibrils

18
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Membrane that surrounds myofibrils

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Sacroplasm

19
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contractile unit of myofibril that occurs in repeating segments

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Sarcomere

Human Anatomy and Physiology I (13 decks)

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