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| If you weigh 120 pounds, how much is muscle? |
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| Characteristics of Skeletal cells |
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| microscopic, threadlike, cylindrical cells with many crosswise stripes and multiple nuclei |
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| fine thread of muscle cells |
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| Three types of muscle tissue |
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Skeletal- attached to bone
Striated- has cross stripes(striations)
Voluntary- can be controlled voluntarily. |
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| Compose bulk of the heart. cylindrical and branch frequently. have striations and dark bands (intercalated disks) |
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| Tapered at the end. have single nucleus. no striations. They are involuntary. |
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| Smooth muscle that makes up much of the blood vessel walls and many of the hollow internal organs |
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| Three types of muscle fibers |
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| skeletal, cardiac, and smooth |
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| Minimum number of bones a skeletal bone must connect to |
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| Mostly stationary bone that a muscle is connected to. |
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| Bone doing most of the movement that a muscle is attached to. |
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| What anchors muscles to bones? |
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| Small fluid filled sacs beneath some tendons and bones. |
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| Membrane lining the bursa and secrete a slippery lubricant. |
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| tube shaped structures that enclose some tendons. They are lined with synovial membrane. |
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| long cylinder in muscle fiber made up of a protein called myosin. |
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| long cylinder in muscle fiber made up of a protein called actin. |
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| Basic functional unit of a skeletal muscle. consist of numerous thick and thin myofilaments. |
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| Three functions of muscles |
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Posture
Generate heat |
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| Tension as a muscle lengthiness. ie lowering a bowling ball slowly to the floor. |
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| Smooth movement, free of jerks and tremors. It's the result of coordination between several skeletal muscles. |
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| Muscle mainly responsible for producing movement |
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| Muscles playing a minor role in a certain movement |
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| muscles that relax as the prime mover and antagonist muscles contract. |
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| Name muscles and role in bending and straightening the forearm |
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Bicep brachii- Prime mover
Brachialis- Synergist
Triceps brachii- Antagonist |
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| Continuous low-strength body contraction to help maintain body position. maintains posture |
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| decrease in body temperature below normal temps |
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| Provides the elegy used to contract a muscle. |
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| decrease in strength of a muscle due to repeated muscle stimulation without adequate periods of rest. |
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| Produced when muscles run low of oxygen. May contribute to burning sensation during exercise. |
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| continued increase metabolism that must occur in a cell to remove excess lactic acid that accumulates during prolonged exercise |
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| Excess post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC) |
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| Technical term for oxygen debt |
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| muscle fiber stimulated by a nerve fiber |
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| Neuromuscular Junction (NMJ) |
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| point of contact between the nerve ending and the muscle fiber |
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| released by motor neuron in response to a nervous impulse |
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| a single motor unit with the muscle fibers it innervates |
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| the type of neurotransmitter operating in each neuromuscular junction |
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| a single motor neuron, with the muscle fibers it innervates |
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| the minimal level of stimulation required to cause a fiber to contract |
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| when stimulated, a muscle fiber will contract fully or not at all; whether a contraction occurs depends on whether the stimulus reaches the required threshold |
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| quick, jerky response to a stimulus |
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| more sustained and steady response than a twitch |
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| contractions "melt" together to produce a sustained contraction |
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| produces movement at a joint |
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| the muscle lengthens but still provides work |
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| when the muscle contracts and no movement results |
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| muscles shrinking in mass during prolonged inactivity |
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| an increase in muscle size often caused by exercise |
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| muscle hypertrophy can be enhanced by this; involves contracting muscles against heavy resistance |
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| endurance training, aerobic training |
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| does not usually result in muscle hypertrophy; instead this type of of exercise increases a muscle's ability to sustain moderate exercise over a long period |
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| a movement that makes the angle between two bones at their joint smaller than it was at the beginning of the movement |
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| movements are opposite of flexions |
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| moving a part away from the midline of the body, such as moving your arm out to the side |
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| means moving a part toward the midline of the body |
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| movement around a longitudinal axis |
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| moves a part so that its distal end moves in a circle |
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| to turn the palm of the hand up-ward; opposite of pronate |
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| to turn the palm downward |
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| angular movement when the top of the foot is elevated (brought toward the front of the leg) with the toes pointing upward |
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| action of the bottom of the foot being directed downward; this motion allows a person to stand on his or her tiptoes |
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| foot movement that turns the ankle so that the sole faces inward toward the midline of the body |
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| foot movement that turns the ankle so that the sole faces out to the side |
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| inflammation of the tendon sheath |
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| muscle weakness, pain, and tingling in the radial side (thumb side) of the wrist, hand, and fingers - perhaps radiating to the forearms and shoulder; caused by compression of the median nerve within the carpal tunnel (a passage along the ventral concavity of the wrist) |
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| rotates and flexes head and neck |
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| extends head and neck; moves or stabilizes scapula |
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| flexes and helps adduct arm |
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| one of the muscles of facial expression; it moves the eyebrows and furrows the skin of the forehead |
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| vastus lateralis, vastus intermedius, vastus medialis |
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| facial muscle that puckers the lips |
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| muscle that elevates the corners of the mouth and lips; also known as the smiling muscle |
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| "strap" muscle located on the anterior aspect of the neck |
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| triangular muscle in the back that elevates the shoulder and extends the head backwards |
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| triangular; for example, the deltoid muscle |
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| the primary flexor of the forearm |
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| the outermost layer of the anterolateral abdominal wall |
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| the middle layer of the anterolateral abdominal wall |
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| the innermost layer of the anterolateral abdominal wall |
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| muscle that runs down the middle of the abdomen; protects the abdominal viscera and flexes the spinal column |
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| the respiratory muscles located between the ribs |
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| membrane or partition that separates one thing from another; the flat muscular sheet that separates the thorax and abdomen and is a major muscle of respiration |
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| a flexor of the thigh and an important stabilizing muscle for posture |
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| overstretching or tearing skeletal muscle fibers resulting from overexertion or trauma |
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| an injury occuring in the area of a joint and a ligament is damaged |
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| any muscle inflammation, including that caused by a muscle strain |
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| major extensor of the thigh and also supports the torso in an erect postion |
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| any of a group of muscles of the leg that originate on the pelvic bone and insert on the femur (along the inside thigh) and draw the leg toward the midline of the body (adduction |
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| any of the powerful flexors of the hip; the hamstring group is made up of the semimembranosus, semitendinosus, and biceps femoris muscles |
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| superficial muscle of the calf of the leg, connected (along with the soleus muscle) to the calcaneus bone of the foot by way of the Achilles (calcaneal) tendon; it's action is to dorsiflex the foot, bending the toes upward |
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| leg muscles that plantar flexes and everts the foot; formerly called peroneous group |
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| any of a group of plantar flexors and evertors of the foot; the peroneus longus forms a support arch for the foot |
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