General Muscle
Muscle Movements
Muscle Terminology
Muscle Contraction
Large Muscle Overview
100
The functions of Skeletal Muscle Tissue
What is protection, movement, posture, thermo-regulation, and the guarding of entrances and exits?
100
Bending a joint to make the angle smaller.
What is flexion?
100
The term meaning back of knee.
What is popliteus?
100
The name for the contractile units in muscle contraction.
What are sarcomeres?
100
There are muscles located in these locations.
What is everywhere?
200
Name 2 characteristics of fibers.
What is multinucleate, high level of mitochondria, and satellite cells.
200
Movement in a superior direction.
What is elevation?
200
This term is used to describe things that pertain to the middle.
What is medialis/medius?
200
This neurotransmitter is responsible for allowing muscle contraction to take place.
What is acetylcholine?
200
Muscles can be (pick all that apply) superficial, deep, intermediate, fuzzy, blue.
What is superficial, deep, and intermediate.
300
Name in order, from superficial to deep, the 4 layers.
What is body, fascicle, fibers, and myofibrils.
300
Anterior movement of the arms at the shoulders.
What is protraction?
300
This term is used to describe the "great" toe.
What is hallucis?
300
These are the 5 steps to muscle contraction.
What is active site exposure, cross-bridge attachment, pivoting, 2 cross-bridge attachment, and myosin activation.
300
A muscle that guards an entrance or exit is called a _____, it has _____ on both sides.
What is a sphincter; tendons.
400
How we group muscles.
What is agonist, antagonist, and synergist?
400
Circular movement that is a combination of flexion, extension, adduction and abduction.
What is circumduction?
400
This term means triangular muscle.
What is deltoid?
400
This term means "stiff death".
What is rigor mortis?
400
Without muscles, we could not _____ (be reasonable)
What is move, eat, blink, stand, digest food, etc etc.
500
Name 6 of the fourteen muscle movements.
What is flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, elevation, depression, protraction, retraction, pronation, supination, inversion, eversion, rotation, and circumduction.
500
The opposite of protraction, and eversion, respectively.
What is retraction and inversion?
500
This term means the opposite of the term major.
What is minor?
500
This must enter the region to allow contraction to occur; this is synthesized by the muscle for energy; this is another name for motor end plates.
What is calcium; ATP; and synapse.
500
These are the two proteins involved in muscle contraction.
What is actin and myosin.
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