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Unit 8: Muscular Tissue & Muscular System Flashcards

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Functions part 2

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Create motion, stabilize body positions and maintain posture, store substances using sphincters, move substances by peristaltic contractions, generate heat through thermogenesis

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Skeletal muscle

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Found on skeleton; generate movement, heat, and maintain posture; striated, multinucleated, fibers parallel; voluntary movement

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Cardiac muscle

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Found in the heart only; pumps blood continuously; striated, branches, one central nucleus; involuntary movement

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Visceral (smooth) muscle

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Found in the GI tract, uterus, eye, blood vessels; peristalsis, blood pressure, pupil size, erects hair; no striations once central nucleus; involuntary

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Connective tissue layers

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Epimysium, perimysium, endomysium, muscle fascia

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Epimysium

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Covers entire muscle

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Perimysium

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Covers uncle of muscle fibers (cells)

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Endomysium

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Covers a single muscle fiber (cell)

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Muscle fascia

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Connects 2 muscles end to end

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Tendons

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Bands of fibrous connective tissue joining muscles to bones

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Fascia

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A sheet/band of fibrous connective tissue enveloping, separating, or binding together of muscle

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Fascile

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A small bundle of muscle

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Aponeurosis

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A thick fascia that connects to muscle bellies

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Sarcolemma

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Plasma membrane (muscle tissue)

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Sarcoplasm

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Cytoplasm (muscle cell)

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Myofibril

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Thin/thick filaments arranged in a specific order

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Sacromere

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Contractile unit of muscle - basic functional unit

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Actin

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Thin filaments

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Myosin

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Thick filaments p; pulls against thin filament; does the work

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Fibromyalgia

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Chronic painful nonarticular rheumatic disorder that affects the fibrous CT components of muscles, tendons, ligaments; autoimmune disorder

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Muscular hypertrophy

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Enlargement of muscle fibers from forceful repetitive muscular activity such as strength training (working out muscles don’t replace themselves)

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Muscular hyperplasia

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Increase in number of muscle fibers (cancer)

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Muscular atrophy

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Wasting away of muscles due to disease, disuse, or denovation

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Muscular fibrosis

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Replacement of muscle fibers by fibrous scar tissue (excessive use/disuse)

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Sliding filament mechanism of muscle contraction

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1) ATP hydrolysis
2) attachment
3) power stroke
4) detachment

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Role of calcium

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Muscle contraction

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Role of ATP

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Energy supply

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Neuromuscular junction

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Excitation contraction coupling (EC Coupling) involved events at the junction between a motor neuron and skeletal muscle fiber.
The thought process going on in the brain; the AP arriving at the neurotransmitter junction; the regeneration of an AP on the muscle membrane; release of calcium from the sarcoplasmic reticulum; sliding of the thick/thin filmaments; muscle movements

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What ions trigger the release of the neurotransmitter

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Calcium

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What is the biggest neurotransmitter

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Ocetylcholine (acCh)

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Role of acetylcholinesterase

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Breaks down acCh after a period of time

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Sources of muscle energy

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1) stored ATP
2) creatine phosphate (energy transfer)
3) aerobic ATP production
4) anaerobic glucose

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Lactic acid

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Causes muscle fatigue “burning”

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EPOC excess post exercise oxygen consumption

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The amount of oxygen repayment required after exercise to:
Replenish ATP stores
Replenish creatine phosphate/myoglobin stores
Convert lactic acid back into pryuvate to be used again in Krebs cycle (ATP)

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High precision motor unit

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Fewer muscle fibers/neurons; laryngeal/extra ocular muscles; 1 nerve few cells; gentle movements; eye muscles (1-4 nerves per cell)

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Low precision motor unit

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Many muscle fibers/neuron; thigh muscles (2,000-3,000); crude movements 1 nerve = 1,000s of cells; quad muscles

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Red muscle

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(Dark meat) have a high myoglobin count; ,ore mito hundred; more energy stores; greater blood supply

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White muscle

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(White meat) have less myoglobin, mitochondria and blood supply

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Twitch

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Recorded when a stimulus that results in a contraction of a single muscle fiber is measured over a very bread millisecond time frame

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Tetanus

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Result in fusion of contractions

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Muscle tone

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Small amount- weakness/involuntary contractions of motor units; established by neurons in the brain/spinal cord; excite motor neurons

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Hypotonia

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Low muscle tone; flaccid paralysis; atrophy

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Hypertonia

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Increase in muscle tone; spastic stiffness rigid; stiffness without reflexes affected

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Isotonic contraction

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Results in movement

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Eccentric contraction

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Contraction in which muscle t sit on and resistance (muscle lengthens)

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Concentric contraction

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Contraction in which muscle shortens while generating force

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Isometric contraction

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Result in no movement
Muscle force = resistance
Supporting objects in a fixed position/posture

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Muscle spasm

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Sudden involuntary contraction of a single muscle within a large group of muscles

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Muscle cramp

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Involuntary painful sustained muscle contractions

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Myasthenia gravis

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Autoimmune disease; causes chronic progressive damage of NMJ; muscles become fatigued easily, neck face affected first

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Muscular dystroph

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Groups of inherited muscle destroying diseases that cause progressive degeneration of muscle fibers (duchennes, boys affected)

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Origin

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Where tendons attach to stationary usually proximal done (where it’s not moving)

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Insertion

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The point or mode of attachment of muscle to bone

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Prime mover/agonist

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Leader muscle; responsible for causing desired movement

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Antagonist

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Stretches yields relaxes to the effects of the prime movement

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Synergist

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Muscles used to prevent unwanted movements at intermediate joints; muscles that work together for an action

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Occipitofrontalis

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Back of school to front; raises eye brows, wrinkles forehead, draws scalp back and forward

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Orbicularis oculi

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Lower eyelids

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Orbicularis oris

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Mouth muscles (kissing)

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Buccinator

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Cheeks (whistling)

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Zygomaticus major

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Upper/lower checks (smiling)

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Levator palpebrae superioris

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Upper eyelids

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Platysma

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Mouth/neck (widens mouth)

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Temporalis

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Temple-jaw (closes mouth)

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Masseter

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Mouth (closes mouth)

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Sternocleidomastoid

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Neck (nodding/turning head flexing head)

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Scalenes

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Neck nodding flexing head

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Extracular muscles

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Eyes (moves eyes)

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Intercostals

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Thoracic cage (inhale/exhale)

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Diaphragm

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Thoracic cage (chest, breathing)

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Abdominal muscles 
Refute abdominis
External oblique
Internal oblique
Transverse abdominis
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Abdomen flexes/compresses abdomen

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Prectoralis major

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Chest, pulls arm down

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Trapezius

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Back/shoulder blade/spine, helps strengthen spine

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Rotator cuff:
Supraspinatus 
Infraspinatus 
Teres minor
Subscapularis
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Shoulder, shoulder movement

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Latissimus dorsi

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Sides of arm, pulls arm inward/extends shoulder

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Deltoid

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Upper shoulder, raises arm at shoulder

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Biceps brachii

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Arm/forearm, flexes forearm at elbow arm at shoulder

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Brachiodradialis

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Arm/forearm flexes arm at elbow rotates forearm

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Brachialis

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Forearm flexes arm at elbow joint

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Triceps brachii

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Arm forearm, extends forearm at elbow joint arm and shoulder joint

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Flexor/extensor carpi

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Flexor/extensor digitorum

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Forearm, fingers

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Flexor/extensor pollicis

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Thumb movement

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Abductor/adductor pollicis

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Thumb joint

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Thenar/hypothenar

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Cupping hand motion

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Gluteal group

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Buttox, thigh and hip

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Iliopsoas

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Hip, flexes

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Tensor fasciae latae

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Hip, a ducts thigh at hip joint

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Adductor group

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Thigh/hip pulls leg in

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Hamstring group

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Leg/thigh, flexes leg and knee

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Quadriceps group

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Thigh/knee extends knee

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Sartorius

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Thigh, rotates thigh

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Tibialis anterior

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Front of leg, brings up foot

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Flexor/extensor hallucis

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Foot, extends big toe

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Flexor/extensor digitorum

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Toes, flexes toes

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Gastrocnemius/soleus

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Ankle, flexes foot, Achilles’ tendon

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Hallux

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Functions of muscular tissue

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Muscles are excitable or irritable; they have the ability to respond to a stimulus; contract able (shorten in length), extensible (extend or stretch), elastic (return to their original shape)

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