3 Major Types of Muscles
These muscles line the insides of organs such as the bladder, stomach and intestines.
Smooth Muscles
The name of muscles is characterized as?
shape, size, fiber direction, location, number of origins or its action.
Is Pectoralis Major muscles name for its size, shape, location, or direction?
Size
Skeletal muscles are striated in appearance and are under___.
Voluntary Control
The Vastus Medialis muscle is name for its location and is located___.
in the front of your upper thigh
As part of the musculoskeletal system, these muscles work with your bones, tendons and ligaments.
Skeletal Muscles
Muscles can be what shape?
Deltoid
Trapezius
Rhomboideus
Serratus
Is Palmaris Longus muscle name for its size, shape, location, or direction?
Size
Are smooth muscles involuntary or voluntary?
Involuntary
The___muscle is name for its location and is located closer to the skin than the transverse abdominal muscle.
External Oblique
These muscles line the heart walls. They help your heart pump blood that travels through your cardiovascular system. You don’t control cardiac muscles. Your heart tells them when to contract.
Cardiac Muscles
What is origin and insertion?
Origin- attached to less or immovable bone
Insertion- attached to the movable bone
Is Vastus Lateralis muscle name for its size, shape, location, or direction?
Location
What are the two types of skeletal muscle fibers?
Fast twitch and Slow twitch.
The___muscle is name for its location and is located in the forearm.
Flexor Carpi Radialis
What muscle cell is uniform in shape and tapers at both ends and round at the center?
Smooth muscles
What is describes as rectus (parallel), transverse (perpendicular), and oblique (at an angle)?
Direction
Is Trapezius muscles is name for its size, shape, location, or direction?
Shape
single-unit and multi-unit are what types of muscles?
Smooth Muscles
contractility, excitability, extensibility, and elasticity. These characteristic describe what type of muscle?
Skeletal muscle
Is Rectus Femoris muscle name for its size, shape, location, or direction?
Direction
Cardiac muscle is considered to be an ______ tissue because it is controlled unconsciously by regions of the brain stem and hypothalamus.
Involuntary