Smooth And Cardiac Muscle Flashcards

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  • Small and spindle shaped
  • One nucleus per cell
  • Less actin and myosin
  • Myofilaments are not organized into sacromeres
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Smooth muscle

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2
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Resulting periodic spontaneous contraction of smooth muscle

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Autorhythmicity

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3
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Specialized cell to cell contact that allow action potentials to spread

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Gap junctions

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4
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  • Long and striated and branching
  • one nucleus per cell
  • myofilaments are organized into sacromere
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Cardiac muscle

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5
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Smooth muscle is under _____ control. While skeletal muscle is under ______ control. Cardiac muscle is under _______ control.

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Involuntary

Voluntary

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6
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It can stimulate smooth muscle to contract.

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Hormones

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7
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Cardiac muscle contraction is ________.

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Autorhythmic

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8
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Type of muscle that exhibits limited anaerobic respiration instead it continues to contract at a level that can be sustained by aerobic respiration and consequently does not fatigue.

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Cardiac muscle

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Cardiac muscle cells are connected to one another by specialized structures that include desmosomes and gap junctions called

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Intercalated disks

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Allows action potentials to be conducted directly from cell to cell

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Intercalated disks

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Cardiac muscle is under involuntary control and is influenced by hormones called

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Epinephrine

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12
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Muscle is connected to the bone by a

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Tendon

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13
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Are broad, sheetlike tendon

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Aponueroses

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A band of connective tissue that holds down the tendons at each wrist and ankle

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Retinaculum

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Causes most body movements by pulling one of the bones toward the other across the movable joint

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Muscle contraction

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16
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2 points of attachment of each muscle

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Origin

Insertion

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17
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Is the most stationary, or fixed, end of the muscle

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Origin

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18
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Is the end of the muscle attached to the bone undergoing the greatest movement.

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Insertion

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19
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The part of the muscle between the origin and insertion is the ____

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Belly

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20
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Each origin is called a what ?

21
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Members of a group of muscles working together to produce a movement are called ?

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Synergists

22
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Among a group of synergists, if one muscle plays the major role in accomplishing the desired movement it is called the ?

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Prime mover

23
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Are muscles that hold one bone in place relative to the body

24
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The name of a specific muscle is based on at least seven characteristics:

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Location
Size
Shape
Orientation of fascicles
Origin and insertion
Number of heads
Function
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Important components of verbal communication
Facial expressions
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Raises the eyebrows
Occipitofrontalis
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Are around the eyes. These muscles tightly close the eyelids and causes wrinkle in the skin at the corners of the eyes
Orbicularis occuli
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Is around the mouth
Orbicularis oris
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Walls of the cheeks sometimes called kissing muscles cause they pucker the mouth
Buccinator
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Smiling is accomplished by _____ muscles which elevate the upper lip and corner of the mouth.
Zygomaticus muscles
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Sneering is accomplished by ________ because the muscle elevates one side of the upper lip.
Levator Labii Superioris
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Frowning and pouting are largely performed by the __________, which depresses the corner of the mouth.
Depressor Anguli Oris
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The four pairs of muscles for chewing, or ______, are some of the most strongest muscles in the body.
Mastication
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Muscles that can be easily seen and felt on the side of the head during mastication.
Temporalis and Masseter
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The _______ muscles, consisting of two pairs, are deep to the mandible.
Pterygoid
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Is very important in mastication and speech
Tongue
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The tongue consists of a mass of _________, which are located within the tongue and change its shape.
Intrinsic muscles
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Located outside the tongue but are attached to and move the tongue.
Extrinsic muscles
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Are divided into a suprahyoid bone group and an infrahyoid group.
Hyoid muscles
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Elevates the pharnyx
Pharyngeal elevators
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Constrict the pharynx
Pharyngeal constrictors
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Originate on the anterior surface of the vertebral bodies
Neck flexors
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Originate on the posterior surface of the vertebral bodies
Neck extensors
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Prime mover of the lateral muscle group | Can be easily seen on the anterior and lateral sides of the neck
Sternocleidomastoid
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Contraction of only one sternocleidomastoid muscle
Rotates the head
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Contraction of both sternocleidomastoid muscles
Flex or extend the head and neck
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Wry neck, may result from injury to one of the sternocleidomastoid muscles
Torticollis
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3 major types of muscles
Skeletal Muscle Smooth