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MSK-Histology Flashcards

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What are the three types of muscle

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Skeletal/voluntary
Cardiac
Smooth

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Describe skeletal muscle

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Striated, unbranched, multinucleated

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What are muscle fibres grouped into?

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Bundles called fascicles

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What is an epimysium

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Connective tissue that surrounds the whole muscle

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What is a perimysium

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Connective tissue around single fascicle

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What is a endomysium

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Connective tissue around single muscle fibre

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What is a sarcomere

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A unit of contraction, placed end to end to form myofibrils. A sarcomere is from one Z line to the next

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What are chondrocytes?

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Cells found in the cartilage that live in an extracellular space called a lacuna.

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What makes the diaphysis of the bone?

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Outer shell of dense cortical bone making up the shaft

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What makes up the epiphysis’s of the bone?

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Cancellous or trabecular bone

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Describe trabecular bone?

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Has osteocytes and is thin, lack haversian canals

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