Lec Int 3-4 Flashcards
serve to contract and relax
Muscles
serve to support the skeleton and its articulations
skeletal muscles
Muscle tissue consists of three major structural types
Smooth, cardiac, skeletal
Type of muscle that lines walls of hollow viscera (GI tract, blood vessels)
amooth
Type of muscle with inherent contractility. No innervation is needed, except for regulation of rate, contractile strength
cardiac
40% of the body mass in normal adults and is the type of muscle attached to the skeleton for moving and supporting joints
Skeletal
Innervation of smooth muscle is via the _________ nervous system
autonomic
Muscles pull ______ (and hence move) a joint
across
A muscle may contract up to ______% of its resting length
57%
4 types of muscular action
Prime mover, Synergists, Fixators, Antagonists
certain muscles whose main function is to produce a specific action.
Prime mover
assist the prime mover, and compliment its action
Synergists
immobilize a joint while another joint is activated
Fixators
stabilize a joint while the opposite prime movers are contracting (eg flexors/extensors)
Antagonists
a muscle fiber equals a ______
muscle cell
Type of mucleation of muscle cells
multinucleated
Term for nuclei located at the periphery of the fiber
syncytial arrangement
The whole sheath around a muscle is called the
epimysium
The epimysium is synonymous with the
deep fascia
connective tissue holding the muscle fibers together
deep fascia
The deep fascia, or epimysium, consists of
collagenous fibers
To cause a joint to move, a muscle must attach to bones around the respective joint. Such attachments are accomplished via relatively avascular structures called
tendons
Tendons are formed by an aggregation of the ________
sarcolemma