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Muscle Tissue And Organization Flashcards

1
Q

What are the easily observed mucles?

A

Skeletal muscles

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2
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What muscle is essential for propelling materials through our internal tubes?

A

Smooth muscle

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3
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What type of muscle is essential for pumping blood?

A

Cardiac muscle

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4
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What is an increase in muscle fiber size?

A

Hypertrophy

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5
Q

What are circular muscle bands?

A

Sphincter

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6
Q

What attaches muscle to bone?

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Tendon

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7
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What is a thin flattened sheet of tendons?

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Aponeurosis

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8
Q

Neurons that stimulate muscle contraction

A

Motor (Efferent) neurons

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9
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Neurons that send impulses to the brain and spinal cord about the activity of the muscles

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Sensory (Afferent) neuron

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10
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Bundles of muscle fibers that lie parallel to each other within the muscle

A

Fascicles

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11
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Muscles with their fibers concentrically arranged around an opening or recess?

A

Circular muscles

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12
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Muscles that have fascicles that run parallel to it’s axis

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Parallel muscles

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13
Q

What is the central body of parallel muscles?

A

Belly

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14
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Muscles that have widespread muscle fibers that converge on a common attachment site

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Convergent muscles

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15
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Muscles with tendons and muscle fibers resembling a large feather

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Pennate

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16
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All muscles fibers on the same side side of the tendon

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Unipennate

17
Q

Muscle fibers on both sides of the tendon

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Bipennate

18
Q

Tendon branches within the muscle

A

Multipennate

19
Q

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

A

Levers

20
Q

What is in the middle of a first class lever?

A

Fulcrum

21
Q

What is in the middle of a second class lever?

A

Resistance

22
Q

What is in the middle of a third class lever?

A

Effort

23
Q

What does a first class lever look like?

A

Seesaw

24
Q

What is an example of a first class lever?

A

Atlanto-occipital

25
Q

What does a second class lever look like?

A

Wheelbarrow

26
Q

What is an example of a second class liver?

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Raising the body onto the balls of the feet

27
Q

What does a third class lever look like?

A

Drawbridge

28
Q

What is an example of a third class lever?

A

Elevation of mandible

29
Q

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

A

Third class

30
Q

A muscle that contracts to produce a particular movement

A

Agonist (Prime mover)

31
Q

Muscle whose action oppose those if the agonist

A

Antagonist

32
Q

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

A

Synergist

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