Exam 25: The Muscular System

A thin covering that is just deep to the fascia of a muscle and surrounds the entire muscle is the ________.

Most of the sarcoplasm is filled with long structures called ________, which produce the striations observed in skeletal and cardiac muscle cells.

An early sign of tetanus is ____.

Number 3 in the figure is the ________ muscle.

The cell membrane of a muscle fiber is called a(n) ________.

You are coaching a middle-school soccer team. Two of your best players just showed up 15 minutes late for a match. They want to go out on the field immediately, but you insist that they warm up and do stretches before joining the game. One of the students complains that the team is losing and he can help turn the game around. Which of the following is the best explanation you can give the student?

When facial muscles contract, they produce different kinds of facial ________, such as smiling or frowning.

The biceps brachii attaches to two places on the scapula and to one site on the radius. When the biceps brachii contracts, the radius moves and the arm bends at the elbow. The ________ of the biceps brachii is where it attaches to the scapula.

Monique is a 79-year-old patient who enjoys being active. Recently, however, her arthritis is getting worse, and she has been having more trouble moving around lately. She tells you that she wants to exercise and stay active, but she is not sure what kinds of exercise she can do now. Which of the following recommendations might you make?

The ________ muscle is located at number 5 in the figure.

Number 6 in the figure represents the ________ muscle.

Dorsiflexion and plantar flexion are represented by the numbers ____.

Pyruvic acid is converted into acetyl coenzyme A, which begins a series of reactions known as the ________ cycle or the citric acid cycle.

________ is a disease that infects skeletal muscles, the heart, the lungs, and the brain and is caused by worms ingested by eating undercooked meat.

Numbers 3 and 4 on the figure demonstrate ____.

Which type of muscle moves contents through hollow organs such as the intestines?

Which characteristic applies to smooth muscle?

The endoplasmic reticulum in myocytes is called ________ reticulum.

The attachment site for the less movable bone when a muscle contracts is the ____.

A fairly common condition that results in chronic pain primarily in joints, muscles, and tendons and most commonly affects women between the ages of 20 and 50 is ________.