Type of Muscle
Type of muscle that is striated and involuntary.
What is Cardiac Muscle
The orbicularis oris muscle is located here.
What is the mouth
This muscle separates the thoracic and abdominal cavities and is also the chief breathing muscle.
What is the diaphragm.
Actin is located here.
What is the thin filament.
Which group of muscles move the arm at the shoulder.
What is the rotator cuff muscles.
The name of the cord of connective tissue that connects muscle to bone.
What is tendon
The quadriceps femoris group and the hamstrings lie along which body part?
What is the thigh
When you "make like a scarecrow" you are contracting which muscle.
What is the deltoid.
This is responsible for muscle relaxation.
What is calcium pumped back into the SR.
The purpose of myoglobin.
What is to store oxygen.
Describe aponeurosis
What is a flat sheetlike fascia, composed of connective tissue, and forms a site of attachments for skeletal muscle.
The biceps brachii, brachioradialis, and brachialis muscle come together here.
What is the forearm at the elbow.
This muscle is your chewing muscle.
What is the masseter.
What is envelops the sarcomere-containing myofibrils.
Recruitment increase this.
What is the force of muscle contraction and number of motor units that are activated.
A muscle that remains in a contracted state.
What is tetany
The rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, vastus medialis, and vastus intermedius are a part of this muscle group.
What is the quadriceps femoris.
This group of muscles forms a posterior fossa, is an extension of the thigh and has the biceps femoris.
What is the hamstrings.
This is a series of contractile units that make up each myofibril.
What is a sarcomere.
Actin and Myosin do this in the body.
Form force-generating cross bridges
Considered contractile proteins
Are sliding filaments
Muscle fibers that are bound together by connective tissue.
What are fascicles
This muscle inserts on the quadriceps ligament, causing extension of the leg at the knee.
What is the rectus femoris.
Muscles that cause movement of the hip attached to both the ______?
What is the coxal bone and femur.
Acetylcholine is released from the prejunctional membrane in response to this.
What is nerve impulse.
Binding of the acetylcholine to the nicotinic receptor on the muscle membrane happens here.
What is the neuromuscular junction