Structures & Types
A band of connective tissue that envelops, separates or binds together muscles or groups of muscles.
What is fascia?
These types of muscle tissue are located in the walls of internal organs. Their function is to move and control the flow of fluids through structures (digestive tract, blood vessels, ducts).
What are smooth muscles?
The stimulation of a muscle by an impulse transmitted by a motor nerve.
What is muscle innervation?
The circular movement around an axis such as a shoulder joint.
What it rotation?
A thick, fan-shaped muscle situated on the anterior chest wall.
What is the pectoralis major?
Long, slender cells that make up muscles.
What are muscle fibers?
These muscles form the muscular walls of the heart.
What are myocardial muscles?
The movement of a limb toward the midline.
What is adduction?
The act of rotating the arm/leg so that the palm of the hand or sole of the foot is turned forward or upward.
What is supination?
Muscles located in the anterior upper arm, flexes the elbow.
What is biceps brachii?
A narrow band of nonelastic, dense, fibrous connective tissue that attaches a muscle to a bone.
What is a tendon?
These muscles are attached to the bones of the skeleton and make body motions possible.
What are skeletal muscles?
The act of lowering a body part.
What is depression?
Decreasing the angle between two bones by bending a limb at a joint.
What is flexion?
Muscle located on the side of the abdoment. This core muscle is engaged when a person laughs or coughs.
What is the transverse abdominis?
Bands of fibrous tissues that form joints by connecting one bone to another bone.
What is a ligament?
These muscles are voluntary muscles.
What are skeletal muscles?
The movement of a limb away from the midline.
What is abduction?
The movement that bends the foot upward at the ankle.
What is dorsiflection?
This muscle is one of the strongest muscles in the body. It moves the lower jaw up to close the mouth when chewing.
What is the masseter?
Name 2 functions of the muscular system.
What is
- to hold the body up and make movement possible
- generate heat
- move food through the digestive system
- move fluids through the body
These muscles are involuntary muscles (must name both).
What are smooth muscles and myocardial muscles?
Increasing the angle between two bones or the straightening out of a limb.
What is extension?
The act of raising or lifting a body part.
What is elevation?
This muscle is in the forehead. It raises and lowers the eyebrows.
What is the frontalis?