Exam 1 Flashcards
What is the basic structural unit of a muscle?
muscle fiber (Cell)
How many muscle fibers can be individual muscle contain
hundreds and thousands
What does the number of fibers found within the muscle depend on?
The size of the muscle
What are muscle fibers grouped into bundles known as
Fasciculi
What are muscle fibers and Fasciculi bound together by?
Connective tissue
What are the three function of connective tissue?
connects the muscle to bone or other structure,
provides a route thorugh which nerves and blood vessels reach the muscle fibers
Provides a non-contractile framework which allows the contraction of a muscle fiber to be transmitted to bone
What is the delicate connective tissue sheath which surrounds each individual muscle fiber and connects it to individual muscle fiber and connect it adjacent muscle fibers?
Endomysium
What does the endomysium surround and what does it connect?
Surrounds each muscle fiber and connects it to adjacent muscle fibers.
What is a more dense layer of connective tissue which surrounds each fasciculi and divides the muscle into a series of separate compartments.
Perimysium
What does the perimysium surround and divides
Surrounds EACH fasciculi and divides the muscle into a series of separate compartments.
What is a dense layer of connective tissue which surrounds the ENTIRE muscle and separates the muscle from surrounding g tissues organs and other muscles?
Epimysium
What does the epimysium surrounds and separates
Surrounds the ENTIRE muscle and separates the muscle from the surrounding tissues organs and other muscles ?
What layer of connective tissue is continuous with deep fascia in the area and will continue as the tendon of the muscle ?
Epimysium.
What does the epimysium continue a?
It Continue as the tendon of the muscle
Muscle fibers are extremely____ and ___ with nuclei arranged around the __ of the fiber.
Long, Multinucleated periphery
What is the contractile unit of the muscle
Myofibril
How many myofilaments are in each muscle fiber?
Hundred of thousands
What is the tough specialized membrane that contains each muscle fiber ?
Sarcolemma
Adult muscles may be as much as ___ times the diameter that they were at birth
10
Exercise may increase muscle size up to an average of about ___percent
25
What is the term used to describe they type of increase in size of muscle, which due to an increase in the size of each individual muscle fiber ?
Hypertrophy
What is the term used to describe an increase in the size of a muscle due to an actual increase in the number of muscle fibers
Hyperplasia
how is hyperplasia induced
muscle fibers must be subjected to high resistance exercise, which induce injury to the individual fibers that then follow a regenerative process
What is the term used to refer to the cytoplasm of the muscle fiber
Sarcoplasm