Exam 25: The Muscular System

Elysia is a young woman who just been diagnosed with fibromyalgia. The physician has asked you to provide her with tips to help manage the disorder. You should suggest that she ____.

________ is a rare but very serious disorder caused by a bacterium that normally lives in soil and water and mainly affects the gastrointestinal tract.

Which of these uses glucose to help make ATP?

Which of the following are characteristics of cardiac muscle?

The process of ________ respiration uses the body's store of glucose to make ATP.

A man staggers into your clinic. He is known to be a heavy cocaine and alcohol user. Part of the clinical data you gather includes a urine sample, which is very dark in color. He complains of weakness and has a "small" seizure when you are with him. You suspect that he may have ____.

Which of the following is a muscle that produces movement opposite to the prime mover?

Skeletal muscle fibers respond only to the neurotransmitter ________, which causes them to contract.

As aging occurs, muscle contractions ____.

Which symptoms are common in trichinosis?

Most of the sarcoplasm is filled with long structures called myofibrils whose filaments produce the ________ observed in skeletal and cardiac muscle cells.

Referring to the figure, which of the following demonstrate flexion?

Although body movement is usually produced by a group of muscles, one muscle is responsible for most of the movement. This muscle is called the agonist or ________.

Which of the following is a protein that stores phosphate groups for use by ATP?

Number 2 in the figure represents the ________ muscle.

Numbers 1 and 2 on the figure are examples of ____.

Myocytes are called muscle ________ because of their long lengths.

You should recommend lifestyle changes to avoid stress for patients who have ____.

When muscles contract, they produce ________, which helps the body maintain a normal temperature.

The cytoplasm of myocytes is called _______.