Muscles Flashcards
Review: What are the three types of skeletal muscle?
- Smooth 2. Cardiac 3. Skeletal
What is the primary function of smooth muscle?
Move substances through by pulsations
Name a few characteristics of smooth muscle. [3]
unstriated, involuntary, visceral(makes up hollow organs)
What is the primary function of cardiac muscle?
Pump blood
What are a few characteristics of cardiac muscle?
Pseudostriated, involuntary, visceral (makes up hollow organs)
What are some characteristics of skeletal muscle?
Striated, voluntary, somatic (located in body walls/limbs)
What is the function of skeletal muscle?
Movement/Stabilization of bones and structures(eyeball)
What are the five characteristics that go into naming a muscle?
- shape 2. location 3. Fiber direction 4. Action 5. Attachment Sites
What are the seven shapes of muscles?
- Flat 2. Pennate 3. Fusiform 4. Convergent 5. Quadrate 6. Circular/Sphincteral 7. Multiheaded/Multibellied
What does a flat muscle indicate about its shape?
Muscles fibers are parallel to its tendons
What muscle shape is feather-like in arrangement of fascicles?
Pennate
What characteristic indicates the muscle fibers only on one side of the tendon?
unipennate
What characteristic indicates the muscle fibers are on two sides of the tendon?
Bipennate
What characteristic indicates the muscle fibers are on multiple sides of the tendon?
Multipennate
Name a unipennate muscle.
Extensor digitorum longus
Name a bipennate muscle.
rectus femoris
Name a multipennate muscle.
Deltoid
What does a fusiform shaped muscle indicate?
Spindle shaped w. round thick belly(s) and tapered ends
Give an example of a fusiform muscle.
Biceps Brachii
Give an example of a flat muscle.
External Oblique
What muscle shape arises from a broad area and joins to form a single tendon?
Convergent
Name a type of convergent muscle.
Pectoralis Major
A Quadrate muscle indicates what about its shape?
Has 4 equal sides
Name an example of a quadrate muscle.
Rectus Abdominus
