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There are four characteristics associated
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Excitability Tissue can receive & respond to
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Movement – both voluntary &
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Maintaining posture
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Types of muscle tissue:
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• Smooth (Visceral)
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SKELETAL MUSCLE
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Associated with & attached to the skeleton
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• Under our conscious (voluntary) control
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• Microscopically the tissue appears striated
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CARDIAC MUSCLE
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Makes up myocardium of heart
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• Microscopically appears striated
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• Makes up walls of organs & blood vessels
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• Tissue is non-striated & involuntary
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• Cells are short, spindle-shaped & have a
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single nucleus
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Skeletal
muscle
Skeletal
Surrounded by muscle
epimysium fiber (cell)
Surrounded by
endomysium
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Origin
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Insertion tR
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Tendon
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ASSOCIATED TERMS
• Tendon
cord of fibrous tissue
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•Insertion
Muscle attachment that moves
•Action
What joint movement a muscle
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i.e. flexion, extension, abduction,
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A strong ,
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thin and flat tR
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sheet of
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providing
attachment to
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An
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interdigitation
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tendinous ends
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of fibers of flat
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Pennate muscles
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fibers run obliquely to
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Chief muscle
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Any muscle
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A fixator contracts
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(contraction an
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produce movement)
Muscles of shoulder
girdle act as fixators
for deltoid
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Prime movers cross
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Synergist contract to an
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intermediate joints
Long tendons of
carpal muscles act as
synergist for long
finger tendons
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