Muscle Types
This type of muscle is involuntary and controls digestive movements
What is smooth muscle?
This motion is the opposite of adduction.
What is abduction?
Orbicularis occuli is found here.
Around the eye.
This molecule is created at the mitochondria and fuels cellular processes and supplies body heat.
What is ATP adenosine tri-phosphate?
Cellular respiration in the presence of oxygen is this type of respiration.
What is aerobic respiration?
This type of muscle is voluntary and attaches to bones, is responsible for movement of position.
What is skeletal muscle?
This condition shortly after death causes a tightening of the muscles.
What is rigor mortis?
Teres minor and teres major are together, commonly known as this. Bad pitcher injury in baseball.
What is rotator cuff?
This molecule is created by the liver and helps regenerate ATP.
What is CP creatine phosphate?
The name for the condition where muscles will wither away due to disuse is called this.
What is muscular atrophy?
This muscle surrounds the heart, responsible for actions of the heart.
What is cardiac muscle?
This bacteria found in soils and rust can cause a stiffening of the muscles and eventually death.
What is tetanus?
This large muscle translates to side muscle of the back.
What is latissimus dorsi?
This is produced when anaerobic respiration is taking place, causing muscle soreness.
What is lactic acid?
This muscle of the hip sounds like a cup of fancy coffee. Abductor of the leg.
What is tensor fascia latte?
The opposite of flexion of a muscle is this movement.
What is extension?
Muscles slide actin over myosin to contract muscles. This theory is called this.
What is sliding filament theory?
This is the triangle shaped muscle of the shoulder. Named for a triangle.
What is the deltoid?
These 2 proteins make up muscle fibers.
What are actin and myosin?
This electrolyte is critical to beating of the heart and muscle movements.
What is calcium?
The opposite motion of supinate is this.
Muscles always move by this type of force.
What is a pull?
This is the longest name for a muscle in the body.
What is sternocleidomastoid?
This is the molecule that starts a muscle movement by being secreted into the neuromuscular junction.
What is ach acetylcholine?
This is the term for the light and dark patterns that the 2 muscle proteins create on voluntary muscle.
What is striated?