Muscle terminology Flashcards
Origin
The bone which a muscle attaches to that stays fixed during muscles contraction
Insertion
The bone to which a muscle attaches to which moves during contraction
Action
movement created at a joint
Extrinsic
A muscle that originates outside of the body part on which they act
Intrinsic
a muscle with in or belonging solely to the body part in which they act
Active movement
When movement occurs using your own strength or volition
Passive movement
When movement occurs due to outside influence
Resistance movement
When you use force to act against an outside force to keep from moving
Flat muscles
Wear a muscle belly hugs the surface of the body parallel fibers wide flat tendons at either end
Fusiform muscles
Wide in the bellies’s middle and narrow at the end, parallel fibers taper to strong tendons
Strap, muscles
long, thin belly with parallel fibers
Unipennate
Diagonal fibers located on one side of a long tendon
Bipennate
Designed like a feather with angled fibers diverging from either side of its tendon
Multipennate
A group of bipennate bellied that form one larger belly
Pennate muscles
Distinguish by short fibers that run obliquely to their tendons, produces greater force than parallel muscles
Parallel muscles
Long muscular fibers that run parallel to the length of the muscle, usually shorter and localized at muscle extremities produce greater range of movement
Tendon
Attaches muscle to bone
Ligament
attaches bone to joint
Fasha
Connective tissue beneath the skin
Perotid gland
Front of the earlobe lobe superficial to masseter muscle
Facial nerve
Deep to the heritage gland, just an interior to the mastoid process of the temple bone, spreads across face, neck and scalp
Temper mandibular joint
Is the articulation between the condyle of a mandible and the mandibular fossa of the temporal bone
