Musculatory System Flashcards
Bundles are long with multinucleated cells and cross-striations, contraction is quick, forceful and voluntary.
Attached to the bone.
Skeletal Muscle
End that remains fixed during contraction, proximal to the insertion in the limb
Origin
End that moves during contraction
insertion
Benign tumor of skeletal muscle
Rhabdomyoma
Malignant tumor of skeletal muscle, most common soft tissue sarcoma found in children, usually affects the head and neck region: orbit, nasal cavity and nasopharynx
Rhabdomyosarcoma
External sheath of dense irregular connective tissue that surrounds the entire muscle. Carries nerves, blood vessels and lymphatics of the muscle.
Epimysium
Thin connective tissue that surrounds a bundle of muscle fibers. Middle layer; covers fascicle. Makes up functional unit of muscle.
Perimysium
Thin delicate layer of reticular fibers and scattered fibroblasts. Surrounds individual muscle fiber myofibril. capillaries form a rich network bringing oxygen into muscle.
Innermost; covers muscle cells or muscle fiber.
Endomysium
Functional/contractile unit of muscle; extends from z disc to another z disc
Sarcomere
Birefringent in polarized light “Anisotropic”, also known as “Dark Band”
A Bands
do not alter polarized light “Isortropic”, also known as “Light band”
I Band
Separates cone sarcomere to another; attachment site for thin filaments
Z Discs
Contains thick filaments but no thin filaments
H zone
Cell membrane or plasma membrane of the muscle, myofibril
Sarcolemma
Invaginations or infoldings on the sarcolemma. Perpendicular sarcolemma
Transverse tubules or T Tubules
Membranous smooth endoplasmic reticulum of skeletal muscle; Storage for calcium ions.
Sarcoplasmic Reticulum
Dilated end sacks of SR: Terminal Cisternae
Space between the Ach and the nicotinic receptorm forms a
Synaptic Cleft or Neruromuscular Junction
Smallest skeletal muscle
Stapedium
Smallest muscle
Arrector Pili
Skeletal muscles in the human body
650
autoimmune condition that antibodies block the nicotinic receptor preventing depolarization, affects extraocular muscles and eyelids first.
Myasthenia Gravis
Loss of power or movement, inability to contract. Damage to motor neural pathwats or inherent disease
Paralysis
Damage to the upper motor neuron, exaggerated tendon jerks
Spastic Paralysis
Damage to the lower motor neuron, affects NMJ, loss of tendon jerks.
Flaccid Paralysis
Decreased angle between two body segments, movement to the coronal plane
Flexion
Increased angle between two body segments, movement away from the coronal plane
Extension
Movement away from the midline, sagittal plane
Abduction
Movement towards the midline, sagittal plane.
Adduction
Turns the bone outward
Lateral rotation
Turns the bone inward
Medial rotation
Combination of flexion, abduction, extension and adduction. Movement at the end of the bone in a circular motion
Circumduction
Raised to more superior level
Elevation
Pulling to a more inferior position
Depression
Allows a forward movement
Protraction
Allows a backward movement
Retraction
Acts to draw the eyebrows together, creating vertical wrinkles on the bridge of the nose
Corrugator Supercili
Contraction of this muscle pulls the eyebrows downward to produce transverse wrinkles over the nose
Procerus
pulls the cheek inwards against the teeth, preventing accumulation of food in that area.
Buccinator