Types of muscles

Question 1

Thin and Thick muscle fibres actin and myosin (endomysium)

Answer 1

Myofibril

Question 2

Fibrous membrane covering, supporting, and separating muscle tissue

Answer 2

Fascia

Question 3

Sheet like tendon joining one muscle with another, or a muscle with a bone

Answer 3

Aponeurosis

Question 4

White fibrous cord of dense, regular connective tissue, attaches muscle to bone

Answer 4

Tendon

Question 5

Generally refers to the proximal attachment or stationary bone

Answer 5

Origin

Question 6

Generally refers to the distal attachment or moving bone

Answer 6

Insertion

Question 7

Group of muscle fibres encased in a facial sleeve called the “Perimysium”

Answer 7

Fascicle

Question 8

Voluntary muscle control, striated

Answer 8

Skeletal muscle tissue

Question 9

Un-voluntary muscle control, striated

Answer 9

Cardiac muscle tissue

Question 10

Un-voluntary muscle control, un-striated

Answer 10

Smooth muscle tissue

Question 11

• round, spindle-shaped, tapered at both ends e.g brachialis

Answer 11

Fusiform

Question 12

short parallel fibres originating from one side of tendon

Answer 12

unipenniform

Question 13

double pennate fibres on both sides of central tendon

Answer 13

bipenniform

Question 14

several tendons with muscle fibres running diagonally between

Answer 14

multipenniform