The muscular system CH 3

Question 1

Ambulation

Answer 1

Muscle movement- walking, running, or otherwise moving from one place to another

Question 2

muscle fibers

Answer 2

Specialized long slender cells who’s predominant function is contractibility

Question 3

My/o, Myos/o

Answer 3

Muscle

Question 4

Fibr/o, fibros/o

Answer 4

Fibrous tissue

Question 5

Skeletal muscle

Answer 5

Striated voluntary (muscles you can control) they attach bones to to the body and make motion possible

Question 6

Striated

Answer 6

Lines in the muscle

Question 7

Rhabdomy/o

Answer 7

Striated muscle

Question 8

Smooth muscle

Answer 8

Nonstriated (also called unstriated) Involuntary visceral. They produce slow contractions to allow unconscious functioning of internal organs

Question 9

Leiomy/o

Answer 9

Smooth muscle

Question 10

Cardiac muscle

Answer 10

striated involuntary. Involuntary contraction of the heart muscle

Question 11

Fascia

Answer 11

A sheet of fibrous connective tissue that covers, supports, and separates muscles.

Question 12

Tendon

Answer 12

A narrow band of connective tissue that attaches muscle to bone (Remember to make distinction between tendon and ligament)

Question 13

Linea Alba

Answer 13

A fibrous band of connective tissue on the ventral abdominal wall that is the median attachment of the abdominal muscles

Question 14

Aponeurosis (Plural form Aponeuroses)

Answer 14

A fibrous sheet that provides attachments to muscular fibers and is a means of origin or insertion of a flat muscle

Question 15

Aponeur/o

Answer 15

Means aponeurosis