muscular

• voluntary muscles are controlled by the conscious part of our brain
• involuntary muscles are controlled by the unconscious part of our brain
• cardiac muscles are involuntary
• a cardiac muscle has a striated texture
• cardiac muscles are found in the walls of the heart and controls your heartbeat
• smooth muscles are involuntary
• smooth muscles are found in hollow organs
• smooth muscle's main job is to move things around the body
• another name for smooth muscles is visceral muscle
• skeletal muscles are voluntary
• a skeletal muscle's texture is striated
• skeletal muscles are found attached to bone
• how many muscles are there in our body (digits)?

  640
• true or false: each muscle is an organ?

  true
• what is the acronym for the five properties of muscles?

  ACEEE
• what is the property of muscles associated with a rubber band?

  elasticity
• what is the property of muscle that shortens the muscle fibers?

  contractibility
• what is the property of muscle that allows muscles to recieve and respond to stimulation?

  excitability
• what is the property of extensibility in three words?

  stretch without damage
• what is the example for contractability?

  bicep curl
• true or false: extension is a property of the muscle?

  false
• would doing the movement of extension involve bring your muscles closer together or farther (one word)?

  farther
• true or false: do abduction and adduction have relation to the midline?

  true
• abduction is moving farther from the midline
• adduction is moving closer to midline
• what could you do to represent flexion ?

  flex
• rotation is rotating around the y axis/ long axis of the body
• what connects bone to bone?

  ligaments
• what connects muscle to muscle?

  fascia
• what connects bone to muscle?

  tendons
• true or false: the origin is the immovable attachment to a bone?

  true
• the insertion is the attachment to the ________ part of the bone?

  movable
• the bicep's origin would be the humerous
• the four functions of the muscular system are movement, stabalize joints, maintain posture, and generate heat
• adaptability is the property of getting bigger and smaller
• atrophy is to get smaller. some temporary examples are a cast, boot, and permanent examples are disease, injury, and paralyzed
• hypertrophy is to grow larger. some examples are working out
• muscles get their names five different ways: location, size, direction of fibers, number of tendons at origin, shape
• the location of a muscle is the structure its found near. whats an example?


  tibialis anterior
• anterior means front and posterior means back