Muscular System 1
What type of muscle is voluntary and attached to bones?
What is skeletal muscle.
What type of muscle is found in internal organs and is involuntary?
What is smooth muscle.
What is the only type of muscle found in the heart?
What is cardiac muscle.
Which muscle type has striations?
What is skeletal muscle.
Name a muscle type that contracts automatically without conscious control?
What are cardiac/smooth muscles.
The functional unit of a muscle cell
What is the sarcoplasm
What is the main function of the muscular system?
What is movement, posture, and stability.
What connects muscles to bones?
What are tendons.
What is the inflammation of a tendon called?
What is tendonitis.
What is the term for torn ligament fibers that result in loosening of the joint?
What is a sprain.
What is the most important ion for muscle contraction. Allows for actin to be open to myosin attachment
What is calcium
Position in which you hold your body while standing, sitting, or lying down.
What is posture?
What is the ability of a muscle to return to its original shape after being stretched?
What is elasticity.
What is the name of the largest muscle buttocks
What is gluteus maximus.
What is a sudden, involuntary muscle contraction called?
What is a muscle cramp.
What muscle is connected to your mandible and allows for mastication
What is the masseter (jaw muscle).
What is the condition that results in sudden tearing of muscle fibers during exertion; also referred to as a pulled muscle?
What is a strain.
What is body heat?
What is the name of the process where muscles contract without relaxing?
What is tetanic contraction.
What is the scientific term for a muscle cell?
What is muscle fiber.
This muscle is located in your upper arm and allows for flexion of the forearm
What is the biceps brachii.
What is the name of the condition where muscles waste away due to lack of use?
What is atrophy?
Which muscle in the body never stops working from birth to death?
What is the heart (cardiac muscle).
Connective tissue that wrap muscle bundles.
What are fascia?
Which muscle group is responsible for extending the leg at the knee?
What is the quadricep.
What myofilaments are responsible for muscle contraction?
What are Myosin and actin.
What is a condition where muscles weaken due to genetic defects?
What is muscular dystrophy.
What is a condition when the muscle contracts due to a toxin produced by a bacteria in a puncture wound
What is tetanus.
What is a condition that is a chronic neuromuscular disease that causes gradually increasing muscle weakness from the body producing antibodies that block Acetylcholine?
What is Myasthenia Gravis.
Skeletal muscles are named with this scheme:
What is location, size, direction, number of origins.