MUSCULAR SYSTEM

Question 1

What are the muscle that function together to produce movement?

Answer 1

Synergists

Question 2

What are the muscles that elevate the mandible?

Answer 2

Temporalis and Masseter

Question 3

What is the muscle that depresses the mandible?

Answer 3

Digastric

Question 4

What is the muscle that move the mandible from side to side?

Answer 4

Pterygoid

Question 5

These muscles extend, laterally flex, and rotate the vertebral column.

Answer 5

Back Muscles

Question 6

It runs from the pelvis to the skull, extending from the vertebrae to the ribs.

Answer 6

Erector spinae

Question 7

What are the three subgroups of the Erector spinae?

Answer 7

Iliocostalis, Longissimus, Spinalis

Question 8

It allows voluntary control of urination.

Answer 8

External urethral sphincter

Question 9

It allows voluntary control of defecation.

Answer 9

External anal sphincter

Question 10

Lifts the rib cage and increases thoracic volume to allow inspiration.

Answer 10

External intercostals

Question 11

It aids in forced expiration.

Answer 11

Internal intercostal

Question 12

The pelvic diaphragm is composed of two pairs of muscles. What are they?

Answer 12

Levator ani & Coccygeus

Question 13

It flexes the extended shoulder and extends the flexed shoulder.

Answer 13

Pectoralis major

Question 14

It adducts and medially rotates arm; shoulder extension.

Answer 14

Latissimus dorsi

Question 15

Muscle to bone.

Answer 15

Tendon

Question 16

Bone to bone.

Answer 16

Ligament

Question 17

This muscle extends the hip.

Answer 17

Gluteus maximus

Question 18

These muscles help hold the hip level while walking or running.

Answer 18

Gluteus medius and Gluteus minimus

Question 19

What are the three compartments of thigh?

Answer 19

Anterior muscles, Posterior muscles, & Medial muscles

Question 20

This muscle extends the knee.

Answer 20

Quadriceps femoris

Question 21

This muscle flexes the knee.

Answer 21

Hamstring

Question 22

These muscles are responsible for most body movements.

Answer 22

Skeletal muscles

Question 23

These muscles are found in the heart and pumps blood throughout the body.

Answer 23

Cardiac muscles

Question 24

These muscles are found in the walls of hollow organs and tubes. It has no striation and involuntary control.

Answer 24

Smooth muscles

Question 25

It is the ability of the muscle to recoil and resume the original resting length.

Answer 25

Elasticity

Question 26

It extend the entire length of an A band.

Answer 26

Thick filaments

Question 27

A coin-shaped sheet of protein (connections) that anchors the thin filaments and connects myofibrils to one another.

Answer 27

Z-disc

Question 28

The ability of the muscle to shorten forcibly.

Answer 28

Contractility

Question 29

The decreased ability to work.

Answer 29

Fatigue

Question 30

It extend across the I Band and partway into the A band.

Answer 30

Thin filaments

Question 31

The ability of the muscle to receive and respond to stimuli.

Answer 31

Excitability

Question 32

It is the increase in the size of muscles.

Answer 32

Hypertrophy

Question 33

What do you call the decrease in the size of muscles?

Answer 33

Atrophy

Question 34

The muscles responsible for pronating the forearm.

Answer 34

Pronator teres & Pronator quadrates

Question 35

This type of muscle tissue has striations and voluntary control.

Answer 35

Skeletal muscles