General features of muscles, muscular auxiliary structures Flashcards
Locomotion system
muscles and accessory structures:
fascia, tendon, bursa
Function
Moves parts of body and body as a whole. Lines body cavities
Different muscles
Visceral (smooth muscles)
vessels
glandular ducts
hollow organs
(Striated muscles)
Cardiac
Skeletal: locomotor apparatus
Parts of skeletal muscles:
Point of origin (puncta fixum) Point of insertion (puncta mobile) Muscle belly (venter) Tendon (tendo)
Point of origin
puncta fixum
prox.
normally fixated
Point of insertion
puncta mobile
dist.
at highly mobile part
Muscle belly
fleshy part= head
Tendon
Tendo, attachment of musle belly to bone. Not allways present
Aponeurosis
Flat bigger “tendon”, white sheet for m.planum (flat muscles)
Tendon (which muscles)
m.fusiform (spindle muscle)
Different muscles
m. fusiform(spindle), m.planum (flat/strap), mm.pennate (short/longer)
sphincter muscles, circular muscles
Pennate muscles
Muscle fibers running, obliquuly to its tendon. Genreallt allows higher force production.
unipennate, bipennate, multi/quartipennate
m.fusiform (spindle), has some structures:
two-bellied muscle,
two headed muscle and the “regular” single head (m. fusiform)
Pysiological cut
shows how strong the muscle is, parallel to the fibers
Layers of the muscle
Endomysium (inner layer, around a muscle fiber)
Perimysium (around a bundle of muscle fibers) =fasiculus
Epimysium (around all fasiculus) = muscle
Fascia (around the epiysium)
Attachment by tendon/aponeurosis –> skeleton