Kind Of Muscle
Muscle Movement
Pass The Joint
Muscle Anatomy
Your Face!
100

This muscle is striated and branched, contains intercalated discs, is under the control of the autonomic nervous system and is only found in the heart.

Cardiac Muscle 

100

This pair of movements happens on a sagittal plane and involve anterior and posterior movements. 

Flexion and extension 

100

This joint is found in the skull, in our teeth and between long bones and are composed of dense regular connective tissue and do not have a joint cavity.

Fiberous Joints

100

The muscle fibers, or myofibers, are covered in this membrane  

Sarcolemma

100

This facial muscle is located on your forehead. 

Frontalis 

200

This muscle is striated, multinucleated, under the control of the somatic nervous system, contains myofibrils composed of sarcomeres, every fiber is controlled by a nerve and is most numerous in the body.

Skeletal Muscle 

200

this pair of movements happens on coronal plane, it is a movement that moves a limb away or toward the body midline. 

Abduction and Adduction

200

This joint is most prolific in the body and had a fluid-filled cavity.

Synovial joints 

200

a group of myofibers covered in sarcolemma are all together covered in this membrane. 

Endomysium 

200

This muscle completely surrounds your eye. 

Orbicularis Oculi

300

This muscle is unstriated and with a spindle shape, it is uninucleate, under the control of the autonomic nervous system, not every fiber is connected to a nerve and can contract without input from the nervous system, and is found in the walls of hollow organs.

Smooth Muscle 

300

This movement is the turning of a bone around its own longitudinal axis and is found in multiaxial joints.

Rotation

300

This joint lacks a cavity and are held together by either hyaline cartilage or fibrocartilage and is either synchondroses or symphyses.

Cartilaginous Joint

300

A muscle fascicle is covered in this membrane. 

Perimysium 

300

This muscle completely surrounds your mouth. 

Orbicularis Oris 

400

You do these movements every time you lift your arm above your head and then bring it back down and it involves only the scapula.

Superior and inferior rotation 

400

A skeletal muscle is covered in this membrane. 

Epimysium 

400

These two muscles are named the same, one s minor and one is major and they are responsible for smiling and snarling. 

Zygomaticus Major and Minor 

500

You do this movement every time you open and close your mouth, and also when you shrug your shoulders. 

Depression and Elevation 

500

This important muscle that allows unhappy people to stick their tongue out. 

Genioglossus

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