What is the term used to describe a muscle action of drawing a body part downward?
Depressor
100
Bending movement that decreases the angle of the joint is:
Flexion
100
What is the number of layers a muscles contains?
4 (Body, Fascicle, Fibers, Myofibrils)
100
What are the 3 muscles types?
Voluntary, Involuntary, Sphincter
100
An increase in the size of the muscle cell
Hypertrophy
200
The ability to stretch muscles.
Extensibility
200
A superior movement
Elevation
200
In Myofibrils, the smallest fiber of muscle that contains actin and myosin filaments, what is another name for the contractile units?
Sarcomere
200
What on the body can you find Parallel muscle types?
Biceps Brachia
200
Wasting away of muscle due to lack of use.
Atrophy
300
Ability to return to original length.
Elasticity
300
The Junction between the motor neuron's fiber wich transmits the impulse and the muscle cell membrane
Neuromuscular Junction
300
What are the three layers of muscles?
Epimysium, Perimysium and Endomysium.
300
A Pennate muscle type is comb-like and has 3 sub-categories which are? Explain them with an example.
Uni- one side of the tendon (Palmer: Ext. Digitorum Longus)
Bi- two sides of the tendon (Rectus Femoris)
Multi- multiple tendons; fibers everywhere (Deltoid)
300
Muscle Pain
Myalgia
400
What is the specific body region for your nose?
Nasalis
400
What is the difference between adduction and abduction?
Adduction: to move toward the midline of the body
Abduction: to move away from the midline of the body
400
In the contraction of a muscle, what is process?
Application of calcium to the myofibrils, plus ATP energy molecule, including myosin and actin, and then finally Neuromuscular junction (synapse or end of the nerve).
400
What is the circular muscle that guards the eye?
Sphincter
400
Sustained contraction of muscle
Muscle Spasm (Cramp)
500
Muscles become shorter and thicker causing muscle movement
Contractibility
500
Give the definition of Inversion and Eversion:
Inversion is related to feet, the movement of the sole towards the median plane.
Eversion, also is related to the feet, the movement of the sole goes away from the median plane.
500
What specific group of muscles have Actin and Myosin in them?
Skeletal Muscles
500
Convergent muscle type includes the Pectoralis, and has a _____ to ______ pattern from the origin.