Muscular System Flashcards
Skeletal Muscle
fibers are multinucleated structures that compose the skeletal muscle, voluntary
Cardiac Muscle
are only found in the heart, involuntary
Smooth Muscle
called so because they do not have striations. These can be found in hollow organs such as bladder, stomach, uterus, intestines, and passageways of circulatory system, involuntary
Exicability
Able to send electrical waves (action potential) along the entire length
Elasticity
Having the ability to recoil back to its original length
Extensibility
allows muscles to stretch or extend
Contractility
allows muscles to pull on its attachment and shorten
Epimysium
outermost layer, surrounds entire muscle
Perimysium
separates and surrounds fascicles
Endomysium
surrounds each individual muscle fiber
Sarcolemma
muscle fiber membrane
Myofibril
individual parallel muscle fibers (made up of actin and myosin)
Sarcoplasm
inner material surrounding the myofibril (equivalent to the cell’s cytoplasm)
Fascicle
the muscle fibers that are arranged in bundles
Actin
thin filaments
Myosin
thick filaments
Subclavius
depression
stabilizes clavicle during movement by depressing it
Serratus Anterior
scapula: protracts; ribs: elevates
moves arm from side of body to front of body; assists with inhalation
Trapezius
scapula: rotates inferiorly, retracts, elevates and depresses; spine: extends elevates shoulders (shrugging); pulls shoulder blades together; tilts head backwards
Rhomboid Major
retracts; rotates inferiorly
stabilizes scapula during pectoral girdle movement
Pectoralis Major
flexion; adduction; medial rotation
brings elbows together; moves elbow up (as during an uppercut punch)
Latissimus Dorsi
Humerus: extension, adduction, and medial rotation: scapula: depression
moves elbow back (as in elbowing someone standing behind you); spreads elbows apart
Deltoid
abduction; flexion; extension medial and lateral rotation
lifts arms at the shoulder
Supraspinatus
abduction
rotates the elbow outwards, as during a tennis swing