Muscular System 1
Muscle responsible for plantar flexion of the ankle (pointing the toes downwards).
What is a Gastrocnemius?
Muscle responsible for dorsiflexion of the ankle (bringing the toes up in the direction of the shin).
What is a Tibialis Anterior?
The the three types of muscles
What are skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscles?
Type of muscle that pumps blood through the body
What is a cardiac muscle?
Muscle responsible for the adduction of the shoulder (moving the arm towards the body) and the shoulder horizontal flexion (moving the arm forwards in front of the body).
What is a Pectorialis Major?
Type of muscular contraction which includes concentric contraction, where the muscle shortens and fattens, as well as eccentric contraction where the muscle lengthens and flattens.
What is isotonic contraction?
Muscle responsible for extending the elbow (straightening it).
What is a Tricep?
Type of muscle which moves substances through the body's internal passageways, regulates the diameter of blood vessels, and controls the contraction of organs such as the stomach, intestines, and bladder.
What is a smooth muscle?
Type of muscles which are not under our conscious control.
What are involuntary muscles?
Muscle responsible for trunk rotation (twisting the body).
Type of muscle contraction which involves a muscle staying the same length despite building tension. This occurs when the body remains in one position.
Muscle responsible for shoulder adduction (moving the arm towards the body) .
What is a Lattissimus Dorsi?
Muscle responsible for the abduction of the shoulder (moving the arm out and away from the body).
What is a Deltoid?
Type of muscle that is connected to the bone through the tendons.
What is a skeletal muscle?
Muscle responsible for hip flexion (moving the knee up to the chest).
What is a hip Flexer muscle?
Are pairs of muscles which work together by one contracting (shortening) and one relaxing (lengthening).
What are "antagonistic pairs"?
Muscle responsible for hip extension (moving the leg backwards).
What is a Gluteus Maximus?
muscles which are under our conscious control, so we can move these muscles when we choose to.
What are voluntary muscles?
A white skeletal muscle which produces a large amount of force, contracts very quickly but fatigues quickly
Type IIx Skeletal Muscle
Muscle responsible for extending the knee (straightening it).
What is a quadricep?
A muscle type which includes all involuntary muscle found in the internal organs and blood vessels
What is a smooth muscle?
Muscle responsible for flexing the knee (bending the leg).
What is a hamstring?
Type of red skeletal muscle which produces a small amount of force, contracts slowly and resists fatigue well
What is a Type I skeletal muscle?
A pink skeletal muscle which produces a medium amount of force, contracts quickly and has a medium resistance to fatigue
What is a Type IIa skeletal muscle?
Muscle responsible for flexing the elbow (be
What is a Bicep?