Muscle Tissue
Voluntary Muscle Tissue
What is Skeletal Muscle?
This muscle forms the buttocks
What is the Gluteus maximus?
This type of articulation has little to no movement
What is a fibrous or synarthrotic joint?
The top chambers of the heart are known as __________
What are atria?
This mineral is necessary for muscle contraction
What is calcium?
This type of muscle tissue does not have striations
What is smooth muscle?
This muscle forms the shoulder
What is the Deltoid?
This type of articulation is freely moveable
What is a synovial or diarthrotic joint?
This valve is between the left atrium and the left ventricle
What is the mitral or bicuspid valve?
The thin filaments of the sarcomere
What is actin?
This type of muscle is found only in the heart
What is Cardiac muscle?
This muscle is found on the back of the upper arm
What is the Triceps brachii?
The hip is this type of joint
What is a ball and socket?
This blood vessel carries blood away from the left ventricle
What is the aorta?
The thick filaments of the sarcomere
What is myosin?
This type of muscle tissue has more that one nucleus in each cell
What is Skeletal muscle?
Muscles are attached to bones by these structures
What are tendons?
This synovial joint movement causes body parts to move closer to midline
What is adduction?
This valve is located between the right atrium and right ventricle
What is the tricuspid valve?
The term for the connection created by the joining of actin and myosin
What are cross bridges?
This type of muscle tissue is found in hollow organs such as the stomach and bladder
What is Smooth muscle?
Muscles must have at least two attachments and must cross at least one ______________
What is joint?
In this type of synovial movement the distal end of the bone moves in a circle while the proximal end remains relatively stable
What is circumduction?
These two blood vessels bring blood into the right atrium
What are the superior and inferior vena cava?
The name of the theory that explains muscle contraction
What is the sliding filament theory?