Muscular System Flashcards
How does the muscular system contribute to homeostasis? Mention the functions.
P-S-S-G
* Producing body movements
* Stabilizing body position
* Storing and moving substances within the body
* Generating heat
Bones can move body parts by themselves. T or F.
F. Muscular system is needed.
How many percentage of muscle make-up the total adult body weight?
40-50%
Ability to respond to certain stimuli by producing electrical signals
Excitability
Electrical signals are also known as?
Action Potentials
Arising in the muscular tissue itself, as in the heart’s pacemaker
Autorhythmic electrical signals
Neurotransmitters released by neurons, hormones distributed by the blood, or even local changes in pH
Chemical stimuli
What causes the inversion of image in our eyes?
Lens
When you cannot smell, you can still differentiate tastes of foods. T/F
F
How many degrees is the peripheral vision of the eyes?
120 degrees but for some people, they can see until 180 degrees
Tears are released from the ___?
Tear ducts
Spicy is NOT a taste, but its pungency is actually ___.
PAIN
Ability of muscular tissue to contract forcefully when stimulated by an action potential
Contractility
Ability to stretch without being damaged
Extensibility
Ability of muscular tissue to return to its original length and shape.
Elasticity
What are the three types of muscular tissue?
- Skeletal Muscle
- Cardiac Muscle
- Smooth Muscle
Consists of long cylindrical fibers with many peripherally located nuclei and striations (WITH STRIATIONS AND IT IS VOLUNTARY)
Skeletal Muscle
Connects the skin to the muscle fibers
Serves as an insulating layer that reduces heat loss, and protects muscles from physical trauma
Hypodermis
Holds muscles with similar functions together
Allows free movement of muscles, carries nerves, blood vessels, and lymphatic vessels, and fills spaces between muscles
Fascia
Dense irregular connective tissue
Extend from the fascia to protect and strengthen skeletal muscle
Outermost layer, encircling the entire muscle
Epimysium
Surrounds groups of 10 to 100 or more muscle fibers, separating them into bundles called fascicles.
Perimysium
Thin sheath of areolar
connective tissue
Penetrates the interior
of each fascicle
Separates individual
muscle fibers from one
another
Endomysium
Cord of dense regular
connective tissue and
parallel bundles of
collagen fibers
Attach a muscle to the
periosteum of a bone
Tendon
Supplies blood to the
muscle fibers
Bring in oxygen and
nutrients and remove
heat and the waste
products of muscle
metabolism
Blood Vessels
Stimulate skeletal muscle to contract
Acetylcholine
Somatic Motor Neurons
The plasma membrane of
a muscle cell
Sarcolemma
Tiny invaginations of the
sarcolemma
Transverse Tubules
Cytoplasm of a muscle fiber
Sarcoplasm