Vocabulary
Are attached to the bones and are voluntary or consciously controlled. Striated muscles assist in maintaining the body's posture and protect some internal organs; also called skeletal muscles.
Striated Muscles
What is the function of the Brain?
It sends and receives messages through 12 pairs of cranial nerves that originate in the brain and reach various parts of the head, face, and neck.
Muscles producing the contour of the front and inner side of the upper arm; they life the forearm and flew the elbow.
Bicep
What is the Soleus?
A muscle that originates at the upper portion of the fibula and bends the foot down.
Consists of the brain, spinal cord, spinal nerves, and cranial nerves. It controls consciousness and many mental activities.
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Are involuntary and function automatically, without conscious will. These muscles are found in the internal organs of the body, such as the digestive or respiratory systems.
Non-striated Muscles
What is the function of the Flexor digiti minimi?
Move the little toe.
Large muscle that over the entire back of the upper arm and extends the forearm.
Tricep
What muscle covers the outer side of the calf and inverts the foot and turns it outward?
Peroneus Longus
The part of the nervous system that controls the involuntary muscles; it regulates the action of the smooth muscles, glands, blood vessels, heart, and normal breathing.
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Is the body system that covers, shapes, and supports he skeletal tissue.
Muscular system
What muscle moves the great toe and helps maintain balance while walking and standing?
Abductor Hallucis
Muscle of the forearm that rotates the radius outward and the palm upward.
Supinator
What muscle covers the front of the shin?
Tibialis Anterior
What are Sensory Nerves?
Cardiac Muscle
What muscle separates the toes?
Abductor digiti minimi.
Muscles that turn the hand inwards so that the palm faces downward.
Pronators
What are Adductors?
Muscles at the base of each finger that draws the fingers together.
What are Motor Nerves?
Impulses from the brain to the muscles or glands. The transmitted impulses produce movement
The point of attachment in a muscle where more movement occurs.
Insertion
What is the function of Gastrocnemius?
This muscle pulls the foot down.
Large, triangular muscle covering the shoulder joints that allows the arm to extend outward and to the side of the body.
Deltoid
Muscles that separate the fingers
Its functions is to carry impulses, or messages, to and from the Central Nervous System.
Peripheral Nervous System