muscular system

Question 1

3 types of muscle tissue

Answer 1

• skeletal
• smooth
• cardiac

Question 2

3 ways to characterize muscle types

Answer 2

• controlled voluntarily vs involuntarily
• appear striated (striped) or smooth
• associated with the body wall (somatic) or with organs and blood vessels (visceral)

Question 3

skeletal muscle

Answer 3

• forms majority of the muscle tissue in the body
• consists of parallel bundles of long, multinucleated fibers with transverse stripes
• is capable of powerful contractions
• is innervated by somatic and branchial motor nerves
• used to move bones and other structures
• provides support and gives form to the body

Question 4

cardiac muscle

Answer 4

• striated
• only in the hear (myocardium) and some of the large vessels close to where they join
  the heart
• resistant to fatigue
• innervated by visceral motor nerves
• consists of a branching network of individual cells linked electrically and mechanically
  to work as a unit