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Muscular System Basics
Properties of Muscles
Contractions
Muscular Tissue Wrappings
Anything else
100
Type of muscle tissue that forms the walls of hollow organs.
What is smooth muscle?
100
The ability of muscle to contract without a nerve supply.
What is automaticity?
100
Attached to the skeleton.
What is the location of skeletal muscle?
100
Fibrous connective tissue that binds muscles and wrap other structures.
What is fascia (deep fascia)?
100
Muscle tissue decreasing in size or wasting away.
What is atrophy?
200
Contracts at a steady rate except for brief burst of rapid rate.
What is cardiac muscle?
200
The ability to shorten forcibly.
What is contractility?
200
Moves with steady constant contractions.
What is smooth muscle?
200
Dense fibrous connective tissue surrounding entire muscle.
What is epimysium?
200
The muscle that aids agonist by promotion of same movement.
What is synergist?
300
Central tendon with short fascicles attached obliquely.
What is pennate?
300
The ability of muscle to resume resting length.
What is elasticity?
300
The muscle that opposes or reverses the movement.
What is the antagonist?
300
Connective tissue around each individual muscle fiber.
What is endomysium?
300
Sprinting
What is an activity that uses white fast twist muscle fibers?
400
Location, origin and insertion, size and functions.
What are the rules for naming muscles?
400
Ability to receive and respond to a stimulus.
What is excitability?
400
Actin and myosin.
What are the myofilaments that produce a muscle contraction?
400
Sheath around several muscle fibers.
What is perimysium?
400
Sudden involuntary contraction of muscle.
What is a spasm?
500
The nervous system.
What is the system that controls muscle contractions.
500
The ability to be stretched.
What is extensibility?
500
Steady partial contractions present at all times.
What is muscle tone?
500
Broad, flat sheet.
What is aponeurosis?
500
Cardiac and smooth.
What are involuntary muscles?