Functional Anatomy Week 2 - muscles, hip and femur bones, muscles and ligaments Flashcards
What do muscles do
Produce movement
Maintain postures and positions
Protection
Driving circulatory system (vascular pump)
3 different types of muscle
Smooth
Cardiac
Skeletal
What types of muscles contract involuntarily
Smooth and cardiac muscles
What types of muscles contract voluntarily
Skeletal muscles
What was the early prediction about how a muscle contracts?
‘Animal spirit’ flowed from the head to the muscles and that the volume of a muscle increases when contracting
The baloonist theory
Attempted to explain muscle movement by asserting that muscles cotract by inflating with air or flud.
Debunking of the balloonist theory
Jan Swammerdam placed a frog thigh muscle in an airtight syringe with water in the tip, therefore he could determine whether there was a change in volume of the muscle when it contracted by observing a change in the level of water
When JS caused muscle to contract by irritating nerve, the water level didnt rise but was lowered –> no air/fluid could be flowing into the muscle hence the balloonist theory was wrong
Aponeurosis
A sheet where 2 groups of muscle fibres converge
Muscle fibre architecture
If fibres are parallel to axis of muscle = parallel
If fibres cross over axis = bipennate, unipennate, multipennate
Location of the ilium
The large, curved bone, superior of the pelvis
What is the PCSA
Physiological cross-sectional area
The area of the cross section of a muscle perpendicular to its fibres
Diffferences between penate muscles and parallel muscles
Penate muscles are stronger as more fibres are packed - they have greater PCSA
However, penate muscles are slower as its fibres have to shorten over a greater distance than parallel muscles
Muscles consist of
Bundles of muscle fascicles
Each fascicles is a bundle of muscle fibres
Each fibre is a bundle of myofibrils
Myofibrils are sarcomeres connected in series
Location of the pubis
At the anterior of the pelvis
What are the 2 parts of the pubis
The superior and inferior pubic rami
Location of the ischium
Posterior inferior aspect of the pelvis
Parts of the ilium
Iliac crest
Anterior superior iliac spine (ASIS)
Posterior superior iliac spine (PSIS)
What is the part of the body that we sit on called
Ischial tuberosity
Parts of the femur
Head
Neck
Shaft
Greater trochanter - lateral side
Lesser trochanter - medial side
Adductor tubercle - where some of the adductor muscles attatch onto
Medial femoral condyle
Lateral femoral condyle
Where does the femur connect to the hip
What surrounds it
Acetabulum - made up of all 3 of the ischium, ilium and pubis
Lunate surface of the acetabulum surrounds it
Difference between a male and female pelvis
Males have higher iliac crests
Pelvic inlet is more heart shape on a male. It is more round on a female
Angle between the two inferior pubic rami on a male is much smaller
Where is the synovial membrane on the femur located
What does it do
Surrounds the head of the femur
Secretes synovial fluid into the joint
A soft tissue of the hip joint attached to the acetabular rim
What is its job
The acetabular labrum
Extends the socket out to hold the femur more tightly into the joint
A structure more superficial to the synovial membrane and surrounds the head and neck of the femur
The joint capsule