Related Essays

  • Skeletal Muscle Report

    My focus for this report is to explain the role of skeletal muscles in the body and a specific disease that can come from it, if not functioning properly. It...

  • Muscle Tissue Research Paper

    Our Muscle Tissue consists of filers, that are highly specialized from the active force of our muscle contraction. Muscle Tissue provides motion, heat produc...

  • Unit 3 Muscle Lab

    There are three types of muscles in the human body: cardiac muscle, smooth muscle and skeletal muscle. For the purpose of our lab we will be focusing only on...

  • Summary Of The Muscular System

     Learning the anatomy and the physiology of a system isn’t as simple as one would think, in this paper I will be explaining the structure and function of the...

  • Essay On Skeletal Muscle

    In today’s generation many individuals go to the gym to lift weights so that they can build bigger and stronger skeletal muscle. Flexing in the mirror for se...

  • Muscles In The Human Body Movement

    “The only tissue to contract in the body are the muscles therefore they move other parts of the body. The secondary function of the muscular system is the ma...

  • Skeletal Muscle Lab Report

    Muscle cells play a very important role in movement of our body. There are three types of muscle cells in vertebrates: skeletal, cardiac and smooth. We are m...

  • The Skin Research Paper

    Each muscle tissue is different in their structure and in the way in which they contract. Skeletal muscle is attached to bone, such as our biceps, cardiac mu...

  • The Musculoskeletal System

    In addition to providing the means to breathe, eat, eliminate wastes, and speak, muscles also allow us to experience the physical and abstract world in a mea...

  • Four Main Tissue Types

    Their nuclei instead are located on the edge and they are shortly separated from each other to better control the muscle tissue .The muscle tissue are main...

  • Shuffle
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Alphabetize
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Front First
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Both Sides
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Read
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
Reading...
Front

Card Range To Study

through

image

Play button

image

Play button

image

Progress

1/6

Click to flip

Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;

Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;

H to show hint;

A reads text to speech;

6 Cards in this Set

  • Front
  • Back
Functions of muscle tissue
1. producing body movments
2. Stabilizing body positions
3. Regulating organ vilumes
4. Movement of substances within the body
5. Producing Heat
Properties of Muscle Tissue
1. Excitiability
2. Contractibility
3. Extensibility
4. Elasticity
5. Thermal
3 types of muscle tissue
1. Skeletal muscle
2. Cardiac muscle
3. Smooth muscle
Skeletal Muscle
-attaches to bone, skin or fascia
-striated with light and dark bands visible with scope
-voluntary control of contraction and relaxation
-multi-nucleated cells
Cardiac Muscle
-striated in appearance
-involuntary control
-autorhythmic because of built in pacemaker
-single nucleus per cell
Smooth Muscle
-attached to hair follicles in skin
-in walls of hollow organs--blood vessels and GI
-nonstriated in appearance
-involuntary