Muscle Chapter - Select Items

Question 1

How does the muscle system contribute to homeostasis for the integumentary system?

Answer 1

Pulls skin to produce facial expressions and increases blood flow to skin

Question 2

Shivering is your muscle system affecting which other body system?

Answer 2

Nervous (they’re involuntary nerve impulses)

Question 3

The arrangement of fascicles in the biceps brachii is _______

Answer 3

Fusiform (gets bigger in the middle)

Question 4

The arrangement of fascicles in the gastrocnemius is ______

Answer 4

Pennate (cus the muscle is short but the tendon extends most of the length of the bone.

Question 5

An aponeurosis is a ______

Answer 5

Flatened tendon sheet

Question 6

Typically facial muscles are originate on _____ or ____ and are inserted into ____ skin tissue which gives facial expressions.

Answer 6

Bones, fascia

soft

Question 7

Shin splints – can be due to tendinitis associated with which muscle?

Answer 7

tibialis anterior

Question 8

Plantar fasciitis – inflammation of ________ that has origin on ________ ; most common cause of heel pain in runner

Answer 8

plantar aponeurosis

calcaneus

Question 9

What do you call the pressure that constricts the structures within a compartment resulting in damaged blood vessles?

Answer 9

Compartment syndrome

Question 10

If compartment syndrome is left untreated, _____ can suffer damage, and ____ can develop scar tissue and contracture (inability to contract) may result.

Answer 10

nerves

muscles