Microscopic Anatomy
This is the myofilament that is thick
This attaches muscle to bone
What is a tendon?
These muscles wrap around the torso on the anterior side of the body.
What is the external obliques?
This type of muscle is involuntary and makes up many of your internal organs
Smooth Muscle
This word means “the ability to recoil or bounce back to the original shape”
What is Elasticity?
This membrane covers an individual muscle fiber
Endomysium
What is the process called when a a sarcomere gets shorter and Z-lines get closer together?
This muscle is the largest muscle in the body and can be found on the posterior side of the body
What is gluteus maximus?
The frontalis muscle is this type of muscle.
This prefix means muscle
What is My- or Myos-?
This structure separates one sarcomere from another.
What is a Z-line?
This causes you to become out of breath and your muscles begin to burn during a workout.
What is a lack of oxygen?
The deltoid is attached to the clavicle and the humerus. Name the structure that is theinsertion.
What is the humerus?
This muscle type is non-striated
Smooth Muscle
This prefix means to surround or to be around
What is peri?
What happens to myosin during a muscle contraction?
It gets shorter
These are the four functions of the muscular system.
Maintains Posture
Stabilizes Joints
Generates Heat
This muscles is the antagonist to the trapezius muscle when rowing.
What is the pectoralis major?
This muscle type is multinucleated.
What is skeletal muscle?
This suffix means splitting apart, separation, or destruction.
What is -lysis?
Put the following terms in the correct order from smallest to largest. (fascicle, muscle fiber, myofibril, muscle)
What causes rigor mortis?
A lack of ATP
This posterior muscle is found underneath the gastrocnemius and is responsible for maintaining posture.
What is the soleus?
This muscle type has mostly slow and steady contractions, but can have quicker contractions.
What is cardiac muscle?
This is the opposing muscles that relaxes during motion.
What is the antagonist?