Muscular System

Question 1

What is anatomy?

Answer 1

the study of the parts

Question 2

What is physiology?

Answer 2

the study of how the parts function

Question 3

What is the cell?

Answer 3

The basic unit of life

Question 4

atoms –> molecules –> cells –> tissues –> organs –> organ systems

Answer 4

know it

Question 5

What is homeostasis?

Answer 5

Balance within the body

Question 6

What is a word association for homeostasis?

Answer 6

steady-state

Question 7

What is the inability to maintain homeostasis?

Answer 7

disease

Question 8

What is a subluxation?

Answer 8

spinal dysfunction/misalignment plus nerve interference that prevents homeostasis

Question 9

When do muscles do work?

Answer 9

When they shorten

Question 10

What are the functions of muscles?

Answer 10

generate heat, provide cushioning for bone, cause motion over a joint, give the body shape

Question 11

What do muscles use for energy?

Answer 11

sugar and oxygen

Question 12

What is the waste product of muscular tissue?

Answer 12

lactic acid

Question 13

What removes the waste from muscles?

Answer 13

blood flow

Question 14

When a muscle contracts, what happens?

Answer 14

it shortens

Question 15

What is a tendon?

Answer 15

A tendon connects a muscle to bone (remember ligament is bone to bone)

Question 16

What muscles are responsible for elevation of the mandible? depression of the mandible?

Answer 16

Elevation - massater, temporalis

Depression - platysma

Question 17

What muscle is responsible for rotation of the head?

Answer 17

Sternocleidomastoid

Question 18

What muscle is responsible for flexion of the head?

Answer 18

sternocleidomastoid

Question 19

What muscles are responsible for extension of the head?

Answer 19

erector spinae

Question 20

What muscles are responsible for trunk flexion?

Answer 20

abdominals, SCM

Question 21

What muscles are responsible for trunk extension?

Answer 21

erector spinae (paravertebral musculature)

Question 22

What muscle is responsible for extension of the shoulder?

Answer 22

Triceps

Question 23

What muscle is responsible for flexion of the shoulder?

Answer 23

biceps

Question 24

What muscle is responsible for elevation of the shoulder?

Answer 24

trapezius

Question 25

What muscles are responsible for abduction of the shoulder?

Answer 25

deltoid and supraspinatous (rotator cuff)

Question 26

What muscle is responsible for adduction of the shoulder?

Answer 26

lattisimus dorsi

Question 27

What muscle is responsible for internal rotation with flexion?

Answer 27

pectoralis major

Question 28

What muscle group is responsible for wrist and finger flexion?

Answer 28

Flexor group (medial) (golf)

Question 29

What muscle group is responsible for wrist and finger extension?

Answer 29

extensors (lateral) (tennis)

Question 30

WHat muscle is responsible for flexion of the hip?

Answer 30

quadricep and psoas

Question 31

What muscle is responsible for extension of the hip?

Answer 31

gluteus maximus

Question 32

What muscle is responsible for knee extension?

Answer 32

quadriceps

Question 33

What muscle is responsible for knee flexion?

Answer 33

hamstrings

Question 34

What muscle is responsible for ankle plantar flexion?

Answer 34

gastrocnemius (achilles tendon)

Question 35

What muscle is responsible for ankle dorsi-flexion?

Answer 35

tibialis anterior

Question 36

What is the major muscle of respiration?

Answer 36

diaphragm

Question 37

What does the diaphragm do?

Answer 37

assists in breathing and separates abdomin from check. Hiatal hernia through this muscle

Question 38

What is smooth muscle?

Answer 38

Smooth muscle is organ muscle which is involuntary.

Question 39

What is cardiac muscle?

Answer 39

Cardiac muscle is only found in the heart, it is involuntary and it contracts in a unique way to conduct electricity