RECIT REVIEW Flashcards
What muscles are most attached to bones?
Skeletal M
Maintains tone wc keeps us sitting or standing erect?
Skeletal Muscles
They carry out the mvment necessary for respiration?
Skeletal Muscles
By product when skeletal musclea contract?
Heat
Causes walls of internal organs and vessels to constrict?
Contraction of Smooth Muscles
Causes heart to beat, propell blood to all parts of the body
Contraction of Cardiac M
4 General Properties of Muscles
Cont, Exct, Exten,Elas
Func of Mus Sys
Maintenance of Posture, Respiration Production of body heat Communication Constriction of organ n vessels Contraction of heart
Ability of muscle to shorten forcefully
Contractility
Capacity of muscle to respond to stimulus
Excitability
Can contract wo outside stimuli but they also respond to stimulation by nerves n hormones
Smooth an Cardiac M
A Muscle can be strected beyond is normal resting length n still be able to contract
Extensibility
Ability of muscle to recoul to its original reating length after it has been strectched
Elasticity
Each skeletal M is a compelte organ consisting of cells called_____
Skeletal muscle fiber
Specialized nervce cla that stimulate muscles to contract?
Motor neurons
Contract slowly, func as 1 unit and can be autorhymthmic
Visceral smooth muscl fibers