Muscular System Lab Quiz Flashcards
How many types of muscle tissue are there?
3
What are the 3 types of muscles?
Skeletal, cardiac, smooth
What do pre-natal muscles grow through?
Hyperplasia
What is naming muscles based off of?
- Shape
- Location
- Attachment
- Size
- Orientation of fibers
What is naming muscles based off of?
- Shape
- Location
- Attachment
- Size
- Orientation of fibers
What does muscle orientation affect?
Affects power, range and speed of muscle movement
Parallel (Fusiform)
–Most muscles oriented this way
–Parallel to muscle axis
•i.e. bicep
Convergent (Triangle)
–Narrow portion connected to origin while wide portion is the point on insertion
•i.e. Pectoralis
What are the different orientations?
- Parallel (Fusiform)
- Convergent (Triangle)
- Pennate
- Circular (Sphincters)
What are the different orientations?
- Parallel (Fusiform)
- Convergent (Triangle)
- Pennate
- Circular (Sphincters)
Tendons
fibrous band of tissue that attaches muscle to bone
Aponeuroses
sheet like layers of connective tissue
a-
without, not
myo/musculo
muscle
sarc
soft, fleshy, or connective tissue