Lecture 7 Flashcards
Latin word Muscle
little mouse
How much of the body mass does the muscle tissue take up?
aprox half of BM
What are the functions of the muscles?
(Makes Philip Jump High)
Movement
Posture maintenance
Joint stabilisation
Heat generation
What are the functional characteristics of muscle? CEEE
Contractibility – muscle cells are able to contract & generate strong pulling force
Excitability – nerve signals/ other chemical signals – excite muscles- electric pulse – muscle contraction
Extensibility – are able to stretch due to pulling force of the apposing muscles
Elasticity – are elastic, resume normal length after contraction, stretching
Name 3 things muscles are characterised by:
Three types –characterised by
How they are controlled – voluntary / involuntary
Appearance – striated (stripped) / smooth
Association – Body wall (somatic) / organs (blood vessels)
What are the 3 types of Muscles
Skeletal
Cardiac
Smooth
How much of body mass os skeletal muscle made up of?
Aprox 40%
Function of skeletal muscle
attach and move the skeleton
provides support & gives shapes / form of body
Describe the make up of the skeletal muscle
striated, parallel bundles of long multi-nucleated fibres
Is the contraction of skeletal muscle voluntary/involuntary
voluntary
Describe cardiac muscle
striated - wall of the heart & some large vessels (near heart)
cellular network – connected electronically & mechanically- fatigue resistant
Is the contraction of cardiac muscle voluntary/involuntary
Involuntary
Where is smooth muscle found?
blood vessels wall, hair follicles, eyeball, gastrointestinal, gastro urinal,
respiratory system
Describe the smooth muscle
elongated spindle shaped fibres
Describe the contraction of the smooth muscle
slow & sustained
What compartments make up muscle fibres?
are formed from the fusion of myofibres which are in turn composed of myofilaments – Myosin and actin repeated as a sacromere
What forms a fascicle?
Several muscle cells group together to form a fascicle
What forms the muscle itself.
Several fascicles group together to form the muscle itself
Name the 3 layers of a basic skeletal muscle.
Epimysium
Perimysium
Endomysium
Epimysium
overcoat, dense irregular fibres – hold whole muscle organ
Perimysium
surround fascicles (bundles of sticks)
Endomysium
surround each muscle fibre
Fuctions of the Epimysium, perimysium & endomysium :
hold muscle fibres together
Give elasticity to muscles
Hold blood vessels and nerves
Transmit the force of contraction to bones
Extend into thick cord like tendons or flat sheet called aponeurosis – attachment to bone
What is each musclel supplied by?
Each muscle – supplied by one nerve, artery & veinall these enter & exit near the middle of its length
Direct attachment?
Fascicles themselves attach
Connective tissues are short
Indirect attachment
more common
Via tendons / aponeuroses
Attach to bones, cartilage , skin, raphe (sheen of fibrous tissue), sheets of facia
Raised marking in bones for tendon attachment
Tubercles, trochanters & crests
Origin
less movable attachment
Insertation
more movable attachment
brevis
short
Direction of fasicles
- rectus
straight - parallet to body’s midline
Direction of fascicles
transvers/oblique
at the angles to midline
Location
First origin then insertation
Action
named for action
examples: flexor, extensor, adductor/ abductor
SUB OCCIPITAL group
RORO
(4)
- Rectus capitus posterior major (capitis –related to scalp)
- Rectus capitus posterior minor
- Oblique capitus superior
- Oblique capitus inferior
POSTERIOR NECK group
Cap & Cer (2)
Splenius capitus
Splenius cervicus
EXTRINSIC MUSCLE GROUP
Lets Take Ron Running Later
(5)
Levator Scapulae
Trapezius
Rhomboid minor
Rhomboid major
Latissimus dorsi