Muscle Tissue And Organization

Question 1

What are the easily observed mucles?

Answer 1

Skeletal muscles

Question 2

What muscle is essential for propelling materials through our internal tubes?

Answer 2

Smooth muscle

Question 3

What type of muscle is essential for pumping blood?

Answer 3

Cardiac muscle

Question 4

What is an increase in muscle fiber size?

Answer 4

Hypertrophy

Question 5

What are circular muscle bands?

Answer 5

Sphincter

Question 6

What attaches muscle to bone?

Answer 6

Tendon

Question 7

What is a thin flattened sheet of tendons?

Answer 7

Aponeurosis

Question 8

Neurons that stimulate muscle contraction

Answer 8

Motor (Efferent) neurons

Question 9

Neurons that send impulses to the brain and spinal cord about the activity of the muscles

Answer 9

Sensory (Afferent) neuron

Question 10

Bundles of muscle fibers that lie parallel to each other within the muscle

Answer 10

Fascicles

Question 11

Muscles with their fibers concentrically arranged around an opening or recess?

Answer 11

Circular muscles

Question 12

Muscles that have fascicles that run parallel to it’s axis

Answer 12

Parallel muscles

Question 13

What is the central body of parallel muscles?

Answer 13

Belly

Question 14

Muscles that have widespread muscle fibers that converge on a common attachment site

Answer 14

Convergent muscles

Question 15

Muscles with tendons and muscle fibers resembling a large feather

Answer 15

Pennate

Question 16

All muscles fibers on the same side side of the tendon

Answer 16

Unipennate

Question 17

Muscle fibers on both sides of the tendon

Answer 17

Bipennate

Question 18

Tendon branches within the muscle

Answer 18

Multipennate

Question 19

An elongated rigid object that rotates around a fixed point (fulcrum)

Answer 19

Levers

Question 20

What is in the middle of a first class lever?

Answer 20

Fulcrum

Question 21

What is in the middle of a second class lever?

Answer 21

Resistance

Question 22

What is in the middle of a third class lever?

Answer 22

Effort

Question 23

What does a first class lever look like?

Answer 23

Seesaw

Question 24

What is an example of a first class lever?

Answer 24

Atlanto-occipital

Question 25

What does a second class lever look like?

Answer 25

Wheelbarrow

Question 26

What is an example of a second class liver?

Answer 26

Raising the body onto the balls of the feet

Question 27

What does a third class lever look like?

Answer 27

Drawbridge

Question 28

What is an example of a third class lever?

Answer 28

Elevation of mandible

Question 29

What is the most common type of lever in the body?

Answer 29

Third class

Question 30

A muscle that contracts to produce a particular movement

Answer 30

Agonist (Prime mover)

Question 31

Muscle whose action oppose those if the agonist

Answer 31

Antagonist

Question 32

Muscle that assists the prime mover in performing it's action

Answer 32

Synergist