Muscles Flashcards
1
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Muscle tissues’ arrangement of fibers may be divided into 4 principle categories….
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- Parallel
- Radiating
- Pennate
- Circular
2
Q
Parallel
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- great range of motion due to elongated muscle fibers running in the same direction
3
Q
Radiating
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- muscle bundles converge or diverge at a certain point
- powerful muscles, but sacrifice the range of motion
4
Q
Pennate
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- muscle bundles converge into a central running tendon (leaf like)
- abdomen
5
Q
Circular
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- sphincter type muscle
- surrounds an area
- eyes, lips, eye lids
6
Q
Origin
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- point of muscle attachment that is fixed/stable
- engages in lesser movement
7
Q
Insertion
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- point of muscle attachment that moves during an action
- the part of the muscle that is attached to the structure being acted upon/wants to move
- when muscle contracts it shortens
8
Q
Skeletal muscle usually produces a movement by acting upon a…..
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JOINT that lies somewhere between the origin and insertion
9
Q
Agonists
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- muscles perform the same action
10
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Antagonist
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- muscles working against each other
- perform the opposite action
11
Q
Organization of Muscle Tissue
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- elongated cells
- primary mediator of all movement in nervous system
- accounts for 40% of body weight (on avg)
- must be switched on/off by CNS
12
Q
The smallest functional unit of muscle tissue is the…
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Muscle Fiber!
13
Q
How big is a muscle fiber?
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10-100 microns in diameter, being 1/millionth of a meter
14
Q
Muscle Fibers contain a lot of..
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Mitochondria, which supplies energy
15
Q
The Muscle Fiber is composed of
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Myofibrils!
