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What are the three types of muscle?
Smooth, cardiac and skeletal
Where is smooth muscle found?
Found in the walls of hollow visceral organs, such as the stomach, urinary bladder, and respiratory passages
Smooth muscle is an _________ movement.
Involuntary
Where is the only place that cardiac muscle occurs?
in the heart
Cardiac muscle is ________. (voluntary or involuntary)
Involuntary
_____________ – muscle plasma membrane
Sarcolemma
___________ – cytoplasm of a muscle cell
Sarcoplasm
What are some muscle functions?
helps maintain blood pressure, and squeezes substances through organs Cardiac muscle is responsible for coursing the blood through the body Skeletal muscles are
________ – attachment to the immovable bone.
Origin
_________ – attachment to the movable bone.
Insertion
What are four characteristics of skeletal muscle?
Excitability, Contractility, extensibility and elasticity
Women’s skeletal muscle makes up __% of their body mass
36
Men’s skeletal muscle makes up ___% of their body mass
42
With more muscle mass, men are generally _________ than women
stronger (sorry girls)
uglier
weaker
less intelligent
By age _____ , _____% of muscle mass is lost (sarcopenia)
80, 50%
What is sarcopenia?
something weird
loss of muscle mass
extra muscle
too much sarco
