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