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A&P - Muscles

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What are the 4 properties of muscle tissue?   Electrical excitability, contractility, extensibility, and elasticity  
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What percentage of your body mass is made up of muscle?   40  
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What are the functions of muscles?   stabilize the body position, generate heat, regulate organ volume, and propel fluid and food matter through the body.  
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Each skeletal muscle is also a what?   Organ  
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What are CT sheaths that surround groups of muscles?   Fascia  
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What is the outermost layer of CT called?   Epimysium  
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What is the CT that surrounds groups of muscle fibers?   Perimysium  
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What is the CT that surrounds separate muscle fibers?   Endomysium  
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What is the plasma membrane of the muscle fiber called?   Sarcolemma  
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What is is the cytoplasm of the muscle fiber called?   Sarcoplasm  
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What are are the contractile organelles of skeletal muscle called?   Myofibrils  
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Which types of muscles are striated?   Cardiac and skeletal  
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Which types of muscles are non-striated?   Smooth  
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Which types of muscles are voluntary?   Skeletal  
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Which types of muscles are involuntary?   Smooth and cardiac  
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Which types of muscles are multi-nucleate?   Skeletal  
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Which types of muscles are uni-nucleate?   Smooth and cardiac  
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Which types of muscles are considered visceral?   Smooth  
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What is formed when two bones articulate?   Joint  
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What is the attachment of a muscle’s tendon to the stationary bone?   Origin  
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What is the attachment of a muscle's tendon to the movable bone?   Insertion  
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Muscles contract to what percentage of their length?   70  
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How many patterns of fascicles are there?   5  
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What are the different patterns of fascicles?   Parallel, fusiform, circular, triangular, pennate  
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What does the prime mover, or agonist, do?   Contracts  
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What does the antagonist do?   Stretch  
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What stabilizes intermediate joints or otherwise assist the prime mover?   Synergists  
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What are are muscles that keep the origin steady while an action is occurring?   Fixators  
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What are the word roots for muscles?   Pattern, size, shape, number, action, location, site  
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