Muscle Tissue
The 3 types of muscle tissue
What are skeletal, cardiac, and smooth?
The most common type of cartilage
What is hyaline?
The 3 basic parts of a neuron
What are cell body, axon, and dendrite?
Muscle fibers that spread out like a fan and converge on an attachment site
What are convergent muscles?
Layer of collagen fibers that surrounds the muscle
What is the epimysium?
The 3 kinds of formed elements in blood
What are erythrocytes, leukocytes, and platelets?
The largest peripheral nerve
What is the sciatic nerve?
Name the quadriceps femoris muscles
What are vastus lateralis, vastus medialis, vastus intermedialis (intermedius), and rectus femoris?
Known as the “plasma membrane” of a muscle fiber
What is the sarcolemma?
The 7th cervical vertebrae
What is the vertebra prominens?
The nervous tissue outside of the CNS composes this nervous system
What is the peripheral nervous system (PNS)?
List the hamstring muscles
What are the semitendinosus, semimembranosus, and biceps femoris muscles?
Smallest functional unit of a muscle fiber
What is a sarcomere?
List 2 of the 5 cardinal signs of inflammation
What are redness, swelling, pain, heat (warmth), and loss of function?
Loss of feeling in the thumb and first two fingers is most likely due to damage to this nerve
What is the radial nerve?
List the rotator cuff muscles
What are supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor, and subscapularis?
The only energy source used directly for muscle contractions
What is ATP (adenosine triphosphate)?
The lateral surface of the knee joint is reinforced by this ligament
What is the fibular (lateral) collateral ligament?
The anterior root of a spinal nerve contains
What are axons of motor neurons?
A smaller muscle that assists a larger agonist
What is a synergist?