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Muscular System Flashcards

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Skeletal Muscle

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Voluntary, multinucleated structures that compose the skeletal muscle

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Cardiac Muscle

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Involuntary, only found in the heart

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Smooth Muscle

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Involuntary, they do not have striations

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Exicability

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Able to send electrical waves (action potential) along the entire length

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Elasticity

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Having the ability to recoil back to its original length

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Extensibility

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Allows muscles to stretch or extend

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Contractility

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Allows muscles to pull on its attachment and shorten

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Fascicle

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The muscle fibers that are arranged in bundles

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Epimysium

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Outermost layer, surrounds entire muscle

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Perimysium

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Separates and surrounds fascicles

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Endomysium

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Surrounds each individual muscle fiber

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Sarcolemma

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Muscle fiber membrane

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Myofibril

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Individual parallel muscle fibers (made up of actin and myosin)

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Sarcoplasm

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Inner material surrounding the myofibril (equivalent to the cell’s cytoplasm)

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Actin

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Thin filaments

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Myosin

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Thick filaments

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17
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Subclavius

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Stabilizes clavicle during movement by depressing; depression

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Serratus Anterior

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Moves arm from side of body to front of the body; scapula, protracts, ribs, elements

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Trapezius

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Elevates shoulders, shoulder blades together; scapula, retracts, elevates/depresses

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Rhomboid Major

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Stabilizes scapula during pectoral girdle movement; retracts, rotates inferiorly

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Pectorallis Major

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Brings/moves elbows together; flexion, adduction, medial

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Latissimus Dorsi

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Moves elbows back/apart; humerus, extension, adduction, medial, scapula, depression

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Deltoid

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Lift arms at the shoulder; abduction, flexion, extension, medial, medial, lateral

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Supraspinatus

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Rotates the elbow outward; abduction

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Teres Major

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Assists the infraspinatus in rotating the elbow outward; extension adduction

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Biceps Brachii

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Performs a bicep curl; flexion, supination

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Triceps Brachii

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Extends forearm; extension

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Pronator Teres

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Turns hand palm down; pronation

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Supinator

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Turns hand palm up; supination

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Iliacus

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Raises the knee at hip; flexion and lateral rotation

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Gluteus Maximus

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Lower knee and moved thigh back; extension

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Gluteus Medius

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Opens thigh; Abduction

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Gluteus Minimus

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Brings thighs together; Abduction

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Adductor Longus

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Bring thighs back together; Adduction, flexion

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Rectus Femoris

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Moves lower leg out in front of the body; tibia/fibula, extension

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Biceps Femoris

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Moves back of lower leg up and back towards the buttocks; tibia/fibula, flexion

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Tibialis Anterior

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Raises sole of the foot off the ground, bend foot upward; Dorsiflexion, inversion

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Extensor Hallucis Longus

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Raises sole of the foot off the ground, extends big toe; Dorsiflexion, extension

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Extensor Digitorum Longus

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Raises sole of the foot off the ground, extends toes; Dorsiflexion, extension

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Gastrocnemius

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Lowers sole of the foot to the ground, moving leg back; Plantar flexion

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Soleus

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Lowers sole of the foot to the ground, maintains walking posture; Plantar flexion

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Tibialis Posterior

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Lowers sole of the foot to the ground, when jumping; Plantar flexion

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Flexor Digitorum Longus

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Lowers sole of the foot to the ground, bends inside of foot upward; Plantar flexion and inversion

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Flexor Hallicus Longus

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Flexes big toe; Flexion

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