Anatomy week 1 - myology Flashcards

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types of muscle tissue

  • smooth muscle
    • involuntary
    • walls organs, vessels, resp pathways, help digestion, reproduction, circulation, breathing
    • slow, steady contraction
    • unstriated
  • cardiac
    • involuntary
    • make walls of heart, create pulsing
    • striated
    • moderate, strong contraction
  • skeletal
    • voluntary/involuntary
    • connected to bones, make movement at joints
    • striated
    • short + strong contraction

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skeletal muscle function

  1. motion
    • exert pull on bones, create motion
  2. posture
    • maintain upright posture
  3. protection
    • protect underlying structures in areas where bones do not
  4. thermogenesis
    • make body heat
  5. vascular pump
    • help propel circulation of lymph + venous blood via contractions of skeletal muscles