Chicken Dissection
Types of Muscles
Definitions
Definition/Contraction
Muscles
Muscles
Muscles
100

What is the thumb of the chicken wing called?

Alula

100

What type of muscle is involuntary and found only in the heart?

Cardiac

100

Muscles that assist the prime mover are called

synergists

100

The end of the muscle that attaches to the more stationary bone is called the 

origin

100

Which muscle aids in closing the jaw?

Temporalis

100

What muscles lie deeper than the internal intercostals and aid in exhalation

Internal intercostals

100

Muscles that flex the wrist

Flexors

200

What is the layer under the skin that looks transparent/white before the muscular layer?

Connective Tissue

200

Which muscle appears striped, or striated 

Cardiac or Skeletal

200

The thick midsection of the muscle

Belly

200

What type of contraction changes the muscle length

Isotonic

200

What muscle draws the mouth upward when laughing or smiling?

Zygomaticus

200

What muscle abducts the arm when using?  Most common place for Intramuscular injections

Deltoid

200
The most powerful muscle in the body
Quadriceps 
300

What is the upper arm (wing) bone called?

Humerus

300

Which muscle in voluntary and helps your bones moves?

Skeletal
300

The end of the muscle that attaches to the more mobile attachment is

Insertion

300

The tension within a muscle increases with which type of contraction

Isometric

300

What muscle assists in blowing?

Buccinator

300

What muscles are considered "ab muscles"

Rectus abdominis

300

The longest muscle in the body

Sartorius

400

What are the 2 bones of the forearm of the wing?

Ulna and Radius

400

Which type of muscle is nonstriated

Smooth Muscle

400

The main muscle triggering the movement is

prime mover

400

The tension within the muscle remains the same with what type of contraction

Isotonic

400

What muscle raises the eyebrows?

Frontalis

400

The muscle that is the prime mover when flexing the forearm

Brachialis

400

Muscles that extend the wrist

Extensors

500

What did you see when you cracked the bone open

Red Bone Marrow

500
Which type of muscle is involuntary and is found in the tracts of your body (digestive, bladder, airways, uterus)

Smooth

500

The muscles that balance the movements of the prime mover and synergists is

antagonists

500
What type of contraction is where its length remains the same
Isometric
500

What muscle extends the head when looking upward or side to side?

Trapezius

500

The muscle that is the prime mover when extending the forearm

Triceps

500

Muscles that flex the wrist

Flexors