A&p Muscles

Front 1

Myo- and sarco- refer to what

Back 1

Muscle

Front 2

What is the muscle we eat and treat?

Back 2

Skeletal

Front 3

What is the muscle only in the heart?

Back 3

Cardiac

Front 4

What is the muscle of composing system of no control

Back 4

Smooth

Front 5

What is the Study of Muscles?

Back 5

Myology

Front 6

What is the inflammation of muscle tissue?

Back 6

Myositis

Front 7

At the cellular level, the cytoplasm of a muscle cell is called what?

Back 7

sarcoplasm

Front 8

What is Atrophy?

Back 8

When a cell shrinks

Front 9

What is Hypertrophy?

Back 9

When a cell gets larger

Front 10

What is hyperplasia?

Back 10

In the developing animal; enlargement of the muscle and the number of cells increase.

Front 11

What is metaplasia?

Back 11

When cell changes shape

Front 12

What is the fibrous connective tissue that is a surrounding layer of organs composed of groups of skeletal muscle cells?

Back 12

Sarcolema

Front 13

What is the central portion of the muscle called?

Back 13

the belly

Front 14

What is the tendon that connects flat muscle to bone? broad sheets of fibrous tissue

Back 14

aponeuroses

Front 15

What is the white line that runs lengthwise between the muscles on the animals ventral midline? most prominent aponeurosis

Back 15

linea alba

Front 16

One of the muscles attachment sites is generally more stable that the other. What is the more stable site called?

Back 16

Origin

Front 17

What site undergoes most of the movement when a muscle contracts? it is more distal on the appendage than the origin.

Back 17

insertion

Front 18

What is used to describe a muscle or muscle group that directly produces a desire movement?

Back 18

Prime mover or Agonist

Front 19

what is a muscle or muscle group that directly opposes the action of a prime mover?

Back 19

Antagonist

Front 20

What is a muscle that contracts at the same time as a prime mover and assists it in carrying out its action?

Back 20

Synergist

Front 21

What is a muscle that stabilizes joints to allow other movements to take place.

Back 21

Fixator

Front 22

Name the order of the abdominal muscles from the outside in.

Back 22

1. External abdominal oblique muscle
2. Internal abdominal oblique muscle
3. Transversus abdominis muscle
4. rectus abdominis muscle

Front 23

what are the fibers that run in a caudo-ventral (backward and downward) oblique direction

Back 23

External Abdominal Muscle

Front 24

What are the fibers that run in the opposite oblique direction, that is, cranio-ventral (forward and downward)

Back 24

Internal Abdominal Muscle

Front 25

What forms the floor of the muscular abdominal wall?

Back 25

Rectus Abdominis Muscle

Front 26

What is the deepest of the muscle as its fibers run directly downward in a ventral direction to insert on the linea alba.

Back 26

Transversus Abdominis

Front 27

What do the muscles of the thoracic limb function in?

Back 27

Locomotion

Front 28

Name the 4 pectoral muscles.

Back 28

1. Descending superficial pectoralis
2. Transverse superficial pectoralis
3. Deep pectoral
4. Xiphihumeralis

Front 29

What muscle is a broad triangular muscle that extends from the spinal column down to its insertion on the humerus?

Back 29

Latissimus dorsi muscle

Front 30

What are the two deltoids?

Back 30

1. Spinodeltoid
2. Acromiodeltoid

Front 31

What are the 2 heads of the Brachiocephalicus muscle?

Back 31

1. Cleidocephalicus
2. Cleidobrachialis

Front 32

What Extrinsic Muscle is not present in the horse?

Back 32

Omotransversarius

Front 33

Name the 3 heads of the Rhomboideus Muscle?

Back 33

1. Rhomboideus capitis
2. Rhomboideus cervicis
3. Rhomboideus thoracis

Front 34

What is the largest and most powerful of the chewing muscle?

Back 34

Masseter muscle

Front 35

What are two of the main muscles that extend the head and neck?

Back 35

1. Splenius
2. Trapezius

Front 36

What is a muscle that extends the head and neck AND also pulls the front leg forward?

Back 36

Brachiocephalic Muscle

Front 37

Neck ___ muscles are located on the ventral portion of the Neck.

Back 37

Flexor

Front 38

What muscle forms along with the brachiocephalicus muscle on the jugular groove?

Back 38

Sternocephalicus

Front 39

What is the major cutaneous muscle of the neck and head?

Back 39

Platysma

Front 40

A large part of the _________ is covered by the trapezius and the omotransversarius muscles?

Back 40

Supraspinatus muscle

Front 41

What muscle has only one head in animals?

Back 41

Biceps Brachii Muscle

Front 42

WHat is the fourth head of the Triceps Brachii muscle in carnivores?

Back 42

the accessory head

Front 43

the quads and the hamstrings are _____ to each other.

Back 43

antagonistic

Front 44

Name the 3 Hamstring muscles.

Back 44

1. Biceps femoris muscle
2. Semimembranosus muscle
3. semitendinousus muscle

Front 45

What are the main flexors of the stifle joint?

Back 45

hamstring muscles

Front 46

Name the 4 muscles that make up the quadriceps.

Back 46

1. Rectus femoris
2. Vastus lateralis
3. Vastus medialis
4. Vastus intermedius

Front 47

What is the Tensor Fasciae Latae?- a tendon or muscle?

Back 47

The Tensor Fasciae Latae is a muscle but just the Tensor Fasciae by itself is a tendon

Front 48

What is commonly used by surgeons to make cuts and strips to replace the anterior cruciate ligaments during repair?

Back 48

Fasciae Latae

Front 49

What is the common calcanean tendon also called?

Back 49

The achilles tendon

Front 50

What muscle contributes to the formation of the common calcanean tendon?

Back 50

the Biceps Femoris Muscle

Front 51

What is the Most cranial head of the Quadriceps Femoris Muscles?

Back 51

Rectus Femoris

Front 52

What is drawing air into the lungs called?

Back 52

inspiration

Front 53

What are the main inspiratory muscles?

Back 53

diaphragm and the external intercostal muscles (intercostalis externus)

Front 54

The Transverse tubules extend from the _____ down to the protein filaments.

Back 54

sarcolemma

Front 55

What are myofibrils made up of?

Back 55

actin filaments and myosin filaments

Front 56

What is the A band composed of?

Back 56

Myosin filaments

Front 57

What is the I band composed of?

Back 57

Actin Filaments

Front 58

What is the area from one Z line to the next Z line called?

Back 58

Sarcomere

Front 59

What is the basic contraction unit of skeletal muscle?

Back 59

Sarcomere

Front 60

When all the sarcomeres of each myofibril is stimulated to contract, they will contract to ____ their normal length.

Back 60

half