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The Muscular System
Review of Muscles
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Anatomy
Graduate
09/14/2009

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smooth muscle
Definition
Contractie tissue that cmpses the mucles found in the walls internal organs.
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Cardiac Muscle
Definition
heart muscle consisting of striaed musc cells that interlock
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Skeletal Muscle
Definition
contractile tissue thacmprises the muscles attached to the skelton; also caled striated muscle.
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Fascia
Definition
Tough sheet of finrous tisue that binds the ski to underlying musces or that supports and separates muscles.
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Myofibrils
Definition
conctractile portion of muscle fibers.
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Actin
Definition
One of the two major proteins of musce; make up thin myofilaments in myofibrils of muscle cells
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Myosin
Definition
Thick myofilament in myofibrils ta is mad of protei and s capable of breaking down ATP
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Mucle twitch
Definition
a contraction of the minor mussles causing a muscle to move involuntary
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summation
Definition
adding to
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neuromuscular Junction
Definition
Junction between a neuron and a muscle fiber.
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Muscle tone
Definition
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muscle spindles
Definition
modified skeletal muscle fiber that can respond to changes in muscle length
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frontalis
Definition
raises eye brows
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orbicularis oculi
Definition
closes eye
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zygomaticus
Definition
raises corner of mouth
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masseter
Definition
closes jaw
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obiculariris oris
Definition
closes and protrudes lips
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sternocleidomastoid
Definition
flexes neck and rotates head
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deltoid
Definition
abducts arms
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pectoralis major
Definition
flexes and adducts arms
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Brachialis
Definition
flexes forearm
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Pectineus
Definition
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adductor longus
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gracilis
Definition
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adductor group
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gastrocnemius
Definition
plantar flexion and eversion of foot
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soleus
Definition
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trapezius
Definition
extends neck and adducts scapula
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latissimus dorsi
Definition
extends or adducts arms
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serratus anterior
Definition
pulls scapula downward and forward
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external obique
Definition
tenses abdominal wall and lateral rotation
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rectus abdominis
Definition
flexes vertebral column
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sartorius
Definition
flexes abducts and rotates leg
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rectus femois
Definition
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vastus medialis
Definition
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vastus lateralis
Definition
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quadricep femoris group
Definition
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peroneus longus
Definition
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extensor digtorum longus
Definition
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tibialis anterior
Definition
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brachialis
Definition
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temporalis
Definition
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ocipitalis
Definition
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sternocleidomastoid
Definition
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teres major
Definition
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triceps brachii
Definition
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hamstring group
Definition
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biceps femoris
Definition
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semtediosus
Definition
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semimembranosus
Definition
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Achilles (calcaneal)tendon
Definition
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Infraspinatus
Definition
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Rhomboieus
Definition
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latissimus dorsi
Definition
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gluteus medius
Definition
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glutius maximus
Definition
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adductor magnus
Definition
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gracilis
Definition
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vastus lateras
Definition
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sartorius
Definition
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frontalis
Definition
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masseter
Definition
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orbicularis Oris
Definition
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Buccinator
Definition
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Zygomaticus
Definition
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hyperkines
Definition
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dystrophy
Definition
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electromyogram
Definition
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menisectomy
Definition
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tenorhaphy
Definition
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myotrophy
Definition
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leiomyoma
Definition
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Kinesiotherapy
Definition
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Myocardial therapy
Definition
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