Week 3 Flashcards
Muscle types?
Smooth- hallow organs/vessels
Skeletal
Cardiac
All the different muscle skeletal properties?
Extensibility Elasticity Excitability Conductivity Contractility
Macroscopic Anatomy?
Connective tissue wrappings support, protect, & separate portions of muscle & whole muscles
Fibres?
individual muscle cells
Endomysium?
sheath of connective tissue enveloping fibers
Fascicles?
bundles of grouped muscle fibers
Perimysium?
layer of connective tissue enveloping fascicles
Epimysium?
layer of deep fascia enveloping bundle of fascicles
Musculotendinous junction?
point where epimysium converges to form a tendon
Muscle belly?
portion of muscle between tendons
Sarcolemma?
cell membrane; regulates chemical transport into & out of fiber
Sarcoplasm?
a gelatinous substance surrounding structures within fiber; cytoplasm of muscle cells
Nuclei?
structures within a fiber that contain functional information for cell & control its operations
Sarcomere?
functional unit of muscle fiber; their shortening causes contraction?
Factors Affecting Contraction Activation?
Muscle force is produce in two ways
- # of motor units that are activated
- Frequency of stimulation