Muscular Flashcards
What are the three types of muscle tissues?
Cardiac, Skeletal, Smooth
How many muscles are in the human body?
Over 600 million muscles
What are the common properties that muscle tissues have?
Excitability, Contraction, Elongate
Has an electric gradient which can reserve when stimulated?
Excitability
The ability to contract or shorten?
Contraction
Shares the capacity to elongate or relax?
Elongate
Which muscle tissue are voluntary muscles that work in pairs to move parts of the skeleton?
Skeletal muscles
Skeletal muscles are composed of _____ _______ that are bound together in parallel bundles?
Muscle fibers
Skeletal muscles are also known as ______ _______ due to their striped appearance under a microscope?
Striated muscles
Which muscle tissue are involuntary muscles found in walls of internal organs like stomach, intestines, and blood vessels?
Smooth Muscle Tissues
Smooth muscle tissues are also known as _______ ________ because it’s non-striated.
Visceral tissue
Smooth muscle cells are ______ and _____ than Skeletal muscle fibers?
Wider and shorter
Smooth muscle tissues are found in ______ and ______ that control various openings throughout the body?
Sphincters and valves
Which muscle tissue are involuntary muscles found only in the heart?
Cardiac muscle
Cardiac muscle cells appearance is?
Striated
Only skeletal muscle interacts with the _______ to move the body?
Skeleton
When contracted the muscles transmit _______ to attached bones?
Force
Working together muscles and bones act as a system of levers which moves around _______?
Joints
A small contraction of muscle can produce a large _______?
Movement
A limb can be extended and rotated around a joint due to?
Muscle arrangement
Each skeletal muscle fiber contains a bundle of __________?
Myofibrils
Myofribils composed of multiple repeating contractile units called ?
Sarcomeres
Myofibrils contain two protein ____________ : thick and thin?
Microfilaments
Thick filament is composed of protein?
Myosin