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Muscle Flashcards

1
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How many muscles are in the body?

A

600

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2
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What percent of your body weight do muscles take up?

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40% (50% if you count smooth muscle)

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3
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What does the word “mus” mean?

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Little mouse

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4
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How much could you lift if you used all of your potential power at once?

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25 tons

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5
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What is the only thing muscles can do?

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Contract

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6
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What are the functions of muscles? (4)

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  • Create movement
  • Maintain posture
  • Stabilize joints
  • Generate heat
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7
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Where is fascia located?

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Between muscles and skin

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8
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What are the external structures of muscles? (3)

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  • Origin
  • Belly
  • Insertion
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9
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What is the order when labeling a muscle? (5)

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Muscles, fascicles, fibers, myofibrils, myofilaments

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10
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How many myofilaments are there in muscles?

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Over 65 million

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11
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What is the dark area on a myofilament? (A-band)

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Myosin

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12
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What is the light area on a myofilament? (I-band)

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Actin

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13
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What surrounds a fiber?

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Endomysium

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14
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What surrounds a fascicle?

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Perimysium

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15
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What is another name for a cell?

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Sarcolemma

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16
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What is between myofibrils?

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Sarcoplasm

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17
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What does Sarco- mean?

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Flesh

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18
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What is a sarcomere?

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One z-line to the next

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19
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What do tendons do for us?

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Provide durability, conserve space

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20
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What are the three types of muscles?

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Skeletal
Cardiac
Smoothe

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21
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What kind of muscle is this?
- Cigar-shaped cells
- many nuclei per cell
- voluntary
- fast-moving but tires easily
- 40% of bodyweight
- attached to skeletal bones

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Skeletal muscle

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22
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What kind of muscle is this?
- Spiral-shaped cells
- one nucleus per cell
- involuntary
- slow-acting but tireless
- have intercalated disks
- found only in the heart

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Cardiac muscle

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23
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What kind of muscle is this?
- spindle-shaped cells
- one nucleus per cell
- involuntary
- slow acting but tireless
- arranged in sheets or layers
- found in internal organs that are usually hollow

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Smooth muscle

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24
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What is an example of a muscle named by the # of heads?

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biceps, triceps

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25
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What is an example of a muscle named by its location?

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pectoralis, gluteus

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26
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What is an example of a muscle named by its shape?

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deltoid, trapezius

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27
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What is an example of a muscle named by its size?

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maximus, medius

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28
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What is an example of a muscle named by its depth?

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internal, external

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29
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What is an example of a muscle named by its origin and insertion?

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sternocleidomastoid

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30
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What is an example of a muscle named by its direction?

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rectus, oblique

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31
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What is an example of a muscle named by its function?

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flexors, extensors

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32
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The ability to receive and respond to stimuli

A

Excitability

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33
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The ability to shorten when adequately stimulated

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Contractility

34
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The ability of a muscle to be stretched

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Extensibility

35
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The ability to recoil and resume resting length

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Elasticity

36
Q

One neuron and all of the skeletal muscles it stimulates

A

Motor unit

37
Q

Where the neuron’s axon terminal inserts into the muscle

A

Neuromuscular junction

38
Q

contractions take a few thousandths of a ___________

39
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The muscle is unable to contract, though still being stimulated

A

Muscle Fatigue

40
Q

Myofilaments are successful in their sliding movements and the muscle shortens

A

Isotonic contractions

41
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Muscles do not shorten much, myofilaments “spinning their wheels”

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Isometric contractions

42
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Continuous partial contractions, muscle remains firm, healthy, and ready for actions

A

Muscle tone

43
Q

What type of exercise is this?
- stronger, more flexible muscles with greater resistance to fatigue
- blood supply to muscle increases
- muscles form more mitochondria to hold oxygen
- overall body metabolism is more efficient

A

Aerobic Exercise

44
Q

What type of exercise is this?
- increases muscle size
- more contractile fivers and connective tissues which reinforce development

A

Anaerobic Exercise

45
Q

What is the quickening?

A

The first movements of the fetus that the mother feels 16 weeks

46
Q

After birth, the first movements are __________ reflex types

47
Q

Development goes from superior to:

48
Q

Development goes from gross movements to:

A

Fine movements

49
Q

Development goes from proximal to:

50
Q

As you get older, what happens to the amount of connective tissue?

A

It increases

51
Q

As you get older, what happens to the amount of MUSCLE tissue?

A

It decreases

52
Q

Muscles can only pull, therefore they work in __________

53
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Muscle with major responsibility in a group (agonist)

A

Primary mover

54
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Muscles that oppose/reverse a movement

A

antagonist

55
Q

Help prime movers by producing the same movement or by reducing undesirable movements.

A

Synergists

56
Q

Specialized synergists. they hole a. bone still or stabilize the origin or a prime mover so all the tension can be used to move the insertion bone.

57
Q

Decrease the angle of joint. Hinge/bend

58
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Increase the angle of joint. Straightening knee, elbow, etc.

59
Q

Away from the midline. Spread fingers and toes.

60
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Limb toward the midline. Closing fingers and toes.

61
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Moving a bone around its longitudinal axis

62
Q

Radius across ulna

63
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Radius parallel to ulna

A

Supination

64
Q

Sole of foot faces medially

65
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Sole of foot faces laterally

66
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Foot up to shin (flex foot)

A

Dorsiflexion

67
Q

Foot points down (point foot)

A

Plantar flexion

68
Q

GENETIC DISORDER: Withering away (polio, muscular dystrophy, etc.)

69
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GENETIC DISORDER: Partial paralysis of the facial muscles and loss of some taste on affected side. May happen overnight with no warning. Thought to be the result of a facial inflammation bothering the nerves. May correct itself with out any medication.

A

Bell’s Palsy

70
Q

GENETIC DISORDER: Spasm in a muscle. Night leg cramps (calcium)

71
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GENETIC DISORDER: Steroid is a derivative of testosterone

A

Muscle Building

72
Q

GENETIC DISORDER: Genetic disease, tiny tears won’t heal

A

Muscular Dystrophy

73
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GENETIC DISORDER: Why we keep breathing hard after we stop exercising

A

Oxygen Debt

74
Q

GENETIC DISORDER: Overstretched muscle so fivers tear. Muscle contracts and becomes swollen due to internal bleeding

A

Strained Muscle

75
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GENETIC DISORDER: Overstretched muscle so fivers tear. Muscle contracts and becomes swollen due to internal bleeding, but worse than strained muscle, takes longer to heal

A

Torn Muscle

76
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GENETIC DISORDER: Actin and myosin don’t let go when slide together at bonding site so the muscle stays contracted. Lasts about 24 hours, then decay softens

A

Rigor Mortis

77
Q

GENETIC DISORDER: Either a stress fracture on distal part of tibia or tendonitis due to overuse.

A

Shin Splints

78
Q

GENETIC DISORDER: Lactic acid builds up so causes pain. Slowly gets to liver and is broken down into sugar

79
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GENETIC DISORDER: Inflamed, swollen muscle due to overuse.

A

Tendonitis

80
Q

GENETIC DISORDER: Sustained contractions of the muscle in the head and neck

A

Tension Headache

81
Q

GENETIC DISORDER: Continuous stimulation of a muscle *bacteria in soil or a rusty nail

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