Directional Terminology
What word means towards the head
What is Caudal?
What is the outer most wrapping on the skeletal muscle called?
What is the Epimysium?
What muscle is found within the organs that need small, delicate contractions
What is Multiunit smooth
What term means loss of muscle mass?
What is astrophy?
Where does muscle contraction begin?
What is neuromuscular junction?
What word means along the backside?
What is dorsal?
What creates a sacromere
This muscle type is found in the stomach,intestine and bladder
What is Visceral smooth
What is the cause of Muscular Dystrophy?
What is genetics?
What is sliding filament theory?
What is when Actin and myosin filaments “slide” past each other as a muscle contracts
This word means towards the limb
What is proximal?
What muscle extends, adducts and rotates shoulder joint?
What is the Latissimus dorsi?
What cell shape are cardiac muscle cells?
What disease is caused by trauma?
What is skeletal muscle rupture?
What do actin and myosin do in terms on conraction?
What is:
Myosin binds to actin and the myosin pulls the actin towards the center to shorten and contract the muscle
This plan divides the body into cranial and caudal parts
What muscle inhalation and exhalation
What is intercostal?
What is present in cardiac and absent in smooth?
What is disease is caused by immune-medicated and has signes of stiff gait, muscle pain, weakness?
What is Polymyositis?
Which bands do the actin and myosin form?
Actin (I Band)
Myosin (A Band)
This plane is parallele to the median plane
What is sagittal?
What muscle flexes leg at knee joint; extends thigh and hip joint?
Biceps femoris
What is the function of smooth muscle?
What is the difference between Non-Inflammatory Hereditary Myopathy and Non-Inflammatory Hereditary Myotonia?
What is:
Myopathy is muscle degenoration and Myotonia is persistant muscle contractions upon movement
How is muscle contraction strength determined?
What is based on the motor units in the muscle?