Quiz 6 Flashcards
What is a fiber that is often wider in size and known particularly for strength?
Collagen.
Tendons are an example of what connective tissue?
Dense.
What cartilage would be found in the framework of our outer ears?
Elastic.
What is the greatest amount of component in our blood?
Plasma.
What muscle tissue is actually multi-nucleated?
Skeletal.
What body cavity refers to the back?
Dorsal.
What cavity will enclose the bladder and rectum?
Pelvic.
What membrane will line the thoracic and abdominal cavities?
Serous.
What region of the skin will contain collagen and elastic fibers as well as blood vessels?
Dermis.
What encloses long bones?
Periosteum.
What region of long bones is where lots of trabeculae are found and red bone marrow?
Epiphysis.
What region within osteons is where one finds osteocytes as well as cartilage?
Lacunae.
What region within osteons that is hard plates with calcium salts?
Lamellae.
What cartilage is found on vertebral disks?
Fibrocartilage.
What cells break down bone tissue?
Osteoclasts.
What is the opening at the base of the cranium?
Foramen magnum.
What bone doesn’t articulate with any other bone?
Hyoid.
Joints are found with bones, but which type is unmovable?
Fibrous.
Bursae are found at which type of joint?
Synovial.
What joint allows for rotational movement?
Pivot.
What stores calcium which is needed for muscle contraction?
Sarcoplasmic reticulum.
What attaches to the Z line of the sacromere?
Actin.
What has a globular head and has golf club like protrusions, makes a cross bridge.
Myosin.
What disorder is really an autoimmune disease?
Rheumatoid arthritis.
What disorder is genetically inherited?
Muscular dystrophy.
Differentiate between ligaments and tendons.
Ligaments connect bone to bone and tendons connect muscle to bone.
What are four ways that muscles are named?
Size, shape, direction of muscle fibers, and what they do.
