Ch.8 Muscle Flashcards
Muscles 3 primary functions
Provide Motion
Maintain Posture
Generate Heat
Bones controlled by conscious mind
Skeletal Muscle
Found only in the heart
Cardiac Muscle
Carries out unconscious internal movements of the body
Smooth Muscle
2 primary protein filaments responsible for contraction within a sarcomere
Thick, dark myosin and Thin, light actin
One nerve fiber and all the muscle fibers it innervates
Motor Nerve
Hold components of muscle together
Connective Tissue Layers
Shortening of all sarcomeres in a muscle fiber
Muscle Contraction
When stimulated individual muscle fiber contracts completely or
Not at all
single muscle fiber contraction
Twitch Contraction
Thin broad superficial muscles found in all domestic species
Cutaneous Muscles
Individual smooth muscle cells or small groups of cells
Multiunit Smooth Muscle
2 main forms of gross anatomy
Multiunit smooth muscle and Visceral smooth muscle
Small and spindle shaped with single nucleus in the center
Microscopic Anatomy
Stimulates heart in fight-or-flight response, causes heart to beat faster
Sympathetic System