Muscles

Question 1

Strap muscles

Answer 1

Shaped like strap or belt

Question 2

Fusiform

Answer 2

Type of parallel muscle, wider and cylindrical shaped

Question 3

Fan shaped

Answer 3

Parallel muscle, fibres converge at one end and spread over broad area to the other end

Question 4

Parallel muscles

Answer 4

Most common types of muscles, fibres run parallel to force generating axis

Question 5

Pennate muscles

Answer 5

One or more aponeuroses run through muscle body from tendon. Three different types: unipennate, bipennate, multipennate

Question 6

Circular muscles

Answer 6

Act as sphincters to adjust opening

Question 7

Isotonic contraction

Answer 7

variable muscle length, constant tension, concentric: muscle shortens, eccentric, muscle extends

Question 8

Isometric contraction

Answer 8

Constant length variable tension

Question 9

Intercalated discs

Answer 9

Found in myocardium, act as a functional syncytium as opposed to true syncytium in skeletal muscle