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Muscle Flash Cards
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Describe the characteristics of skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle | Skeletal: attached to the bone and in charge of making our skeleton move. (voluntary) smooth: Unstraited muscle found on the inside of some organs and blood vessels. (involuntary) Cardiac: Found lining the walls of the heart, its striated. (voluntary) |
| Describe the five functions of muscular tissue | support, protect, assist in movement, mineral homeostasis, production of blood cells, triglyceride storage |
| Describe the function of fascia | a structure of a connective tissue that surround muscles, groups of muscles, blood vessels, and nerves. binding some structures together while permitting some to slide smoothly right over each other. |
| Describe the composition and function of a tendon | A band of tough, inelastic fibrous tissue that connects a muscle with it's bony attachment. |
| Describe the function of sacrolemma, and t-tubules | A sacrolemma is a plasma membrane that covers muscle fibers. A t-tubules |
| Describe the function of myofibril | cylindrical structures extending along the entire length of a muscle fiber. |
| Describe the function of actin,tropomysin, and troponin | individual actin molecules join to form an actin filament that is twisted into a helix. tropomysin, and troponin are contained on a thin filaments that cover myosin-binding sites on actin in released muscle fibers. |
| Describe the parts of a neuromuscular junction | motor end plate, and synaptic cleft |
| Describe the causes of Ducheyenne and Becker Muscular Dystrophy | Recessive gene carried on the X chromosome, females wont get it because they have a normal X chromosome |
| Define "cramp" and summarize it's causes | a sudden brief usually painful contraction of a muscle or group group of muscles. It can happen to healthy people, sometimes right after exercise or during rest. Inadequate blood flow to the muscles. |
| Describe the cause and symptoms of fibromyalgia | the causes are unknown can be worsened by mental stress, poor sleep, repetitive strains, injuries, and chronic dampness and cold. |
| Describe the source of pain in shin splints and their cause | The shin muscles pull the foot up, and calf muscles pulls it down. While walking the calf muscles exert so much force they can injure the shin muscles. |
| Describe the symptoms of a muscle strain | a torn muscle causes severe pain and bleeding. |
| Describe the sources of pain in tendon inflammation and causes for tendon inflammation | the source of pain is the tendon its self or the inner lining of the fiberosis sheather. cause: over use, sudden pulling, moving it creating friction between outter surface and ajacent bone. |
| Describe the symptoms of myasthenia gravis | weak drooping eyelashes, double vision, extreme fatigue, difficulty speaking and swallowing, and weakness of arms and legs. |
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