MUSCLE & TISSUES Flashcards
Your musculoskeletal system includes _, _, _, and _. They work together to support your body’s weight and help you move.
bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments and soft tissues.
It provide structure and form for your body
Bones
A type of connective tissue, _ cushions bones inside your joints, it protects bones from rubbing against each other It potects bones from rubbing against each other.
Cartillage
Bones come together to form joints.
Joint
It is made of thousands of stretchy fibers
Muscles
Made of tough collagen fibers,it connect bones and help stabilize joints.
Ligaments
It binds muscle to a bone
Tendons
It connects a bone to a other bone
Ligaments
3 Types of Muscles
- Skeletal muscle
- Smooth muscle
- Cardiac muscle
It consciously choose to contract the muscle.
ex: skeletal muscles
Voluntary muscles
Under control of subconscious brain
ex: smooth muscles and cardiac muscle
Involuntary muscles
It is associated with internal organs. Also called visceral muscle.
Smooth muscles
Also called myocardium. It makes up walls of
heart. Elongated branched individual cells parallel to each other.
Cardiac muscles
It is the reception and conduction of impulses. Found in the brain and the spinal cord. Called neurons or nerve cells.
Nervous tissue
It is attached to bones produce voluntary movement of skeleton and also referred to as striated muscle. Looks striped under microscope.
Skeletal muscles
