Muscles Flashcards
Skeletal muscle characteristics
- Excitability= respond to stimulus
- Contractibility= shorten and generate force
- Extensibility= can be stretched
- Elasticity= can return to original length
Attachment- proximal
origin and less mobile
attachment- distal
insertion and mobile
cardiac muscle
involuntary and striated
smooth muscle
involuntary and non striated
skeletal muscle
voluntary and striated
encases a muscle fibre
endomyisium connective tissue
encases a fasicle
perimyisium
encase entricmuscle
epimyisium
muscle fibre is
long cylinder
muscle cells are multinucliated
tendon sheath
- Covers tendon
- Synovial fluid
- Prevent tendon pulling away from muscle
skeletal muscle attachments
fleshy
tendon
raphe
fleshy
muscle fibre attach directly to bone
tendon attachment
muscle fibre attach to a connective chord
raphe attachment
muscle fibre attach to a sheet of connective tissue
sliding filament theory
Sarcomere- long- not contracting// thin- is contracting
Actin- thin
Myosin- thick
Both of these will slide over each other
parallel muscle
- Fibres are in line with each other
- Max shorten
- Larger range will decrease amount of force
- Starp = long and flat
- Fusiform= classic shape
- Triangle/ converge= broad
- Flat quadrilateral= fibres in same axis as tendon
oblique muscle
- Less short
- Less range- increase force
- Unipennate- fibreas attach to one side of tendons
- Bipennate
- multipennate
circular muscle
- Muscle act a joint over 2 or more joints
- Same area and same action- share same blood supply, nerve supply and venous and lymphatic drain
medial thigh muscles
gracilis
pectineus
adductor magnus
adductor longus
adductor breuis
action
movement produced when muscle contrats concentraclly in isolation
muscle contraction
development on tension
static muscle contraction
isometric
isometric characteristics
tension
no change in muscle length
no movement