Muscular System Flashcards

(33 cards)

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Voluntary or striated muscles ( muscles moved consciously )

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Skeletal muscles

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Functions

4

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Movement
Posture
Generates heat
Muscles move

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2
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Skeletal muscles

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Attached like a tendon
Pulls never pushes body parts
Work in pairs
Contact and relaxes but tire quickly
Composed of fiber muscles
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3
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Contract in the heart to pump blood through the body

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Cardiac muscles

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4
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Cardiac muscle

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Involuntary do not tire easily

Striated

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5
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Found in the digestive system ,blood vessels ,etc

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Smooth muscles

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6
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Smooth muscles

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Contract slowly
Involuntary
Moves an organ

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7
Q

Fibers

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Very long
Muscle cells with nuclei
Composed of mayofibrils

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8
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Mayofibrils

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Composed of sarcomeres

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9
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Sarcomeres

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Shortens when muscles contracts

Lengthens when they relax

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10
Q

Orbicularis oris

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Moves lips

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11
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Orbicularis oculi

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Moves eyelids

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12
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Frontails

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Raises eyebrows

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13
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Buccinator

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Smiling , chewing , whistling , speaking

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14
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Deltoid

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Moves arm

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15
Q

Gluteus Maximus

16
Q

Gastrocnemius

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Pulls foot down ( running )

17
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Rectus abdominis

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Posture
Pushes air
Flexes torso
( pulls upper body down )

18
Q

External oblique

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Breathing , rotates , bends upper body

19
Q

Tibialis

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Raises the foot

20
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Quadriceps

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4 muscles ( moves leg-extends )

21
Q

Hamstring

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3 muscles ( moves leg pulls it to the gluteus )

22
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Pectorals major

23
Q

Walking requires about

24
25% of muscles are in your
Foot
25
Muscles make up about
Half you weight
26
How many muscles are in the human body
650
27
Masseter
Chewing
28
Sternocliedomastoid
Turns head side to side
29
Trapezius
Raises and lowers shoulders
30
Latissimus Dorsi
Moves arm
31
Biceps brachii
Flexes arm
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Triceps brachii
Extends arm