Muscles

Question 1

What are the three types of muscle?

Answer 1

Skeletal, smooth and cardiac

Question 2

Cardiac muscle

Answer 2

Makes up the heart and has unique histological and physiological features.

Question 3

Smooth muscle

Answer 3

Involuntary muscle
Found in walls of blood vessels, bowel, bladder, uterus etc
Controlled by autonomic nervous system

Question 4

Skeletal muscle

Answer 4

Voluntary control
Move the skeleton
A skeletal muscle has 2 or more attachments to the bony skeleton usually with at least 1 joint between the attachments.
Contraction pulls the attachments closer together and hence cause a joint movement.

Question 5

The Origin

Answer 5

The muscle attachment which moves the least is called the origin and the other end is called the insertion.

Question 6

Tendons

Answer 6

Tendons is a fibrous connective tissue that attaches muscle to bone.

Question 7

Types of skeletal muscle

Answer 7

1. Fusiform - biceps
2. Parallel
3. Convergent
4. Unipennate
5. Bi/Multipennate
6. Circular