Muscular System - Defintions
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| show | a result of muscular contraction. relies on the functioning of the muscles, bones and joints.
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| Maintaining posture | show 🗑
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| show | also known as thermogenesis. Helps maintain normal body
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| Storage of substances | show 🗑
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| show | ability to contract (shorten).
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| show | ability to conduct an electrical current. Nerve impulses cause muscles to contract.
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| Extensibility | show 🗑
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| show | ability to return to original length and shape after contraction or extension (spring).
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| show | adenosine triphosphate
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| Aerobic respiration | show 🗑
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| Anaerobic respiration | show 🗑
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| show | protein unique to muscles and is an energy storage form
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| show | also known as muscle growth
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| Creatinine | show 🗑
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| show | raises eyebrows
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| Orbicularis oculi | show 🗑
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| Orbicularis oris | show 🗑
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| masseter | show 🗑
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| Temporalis | show 🗑
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| Sternocleidomastoid | show 🗑
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| show | Pulls head backwards. Elevates (shrugs) and retracts shoulders.
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| Supraspinatus | show 🗑
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| Psoas | show 🗑
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| Latissimus dorsi | show 🗑
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| show | Bending backwards or sideways (vertebral extension or lateral flexion).
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| Erector spinae | show 🗑
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| show | Draws arms forward: Shoulder flexion and medial rotation.
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| show | Vertebral flexion: Bending
forward (crunches).
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| show | Rotation, bending sideways.
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| Deltoid | show 🗑
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| show | Stabilises shoulder joint; flexion and supination of forearm
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| Triceps brachii | show 🗑
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| show | Flexes the hand at the wrist joint
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| show | Extends the hand at the wrist joint
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| Gluteus maximus | show 🗑
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| Piriformis | show 🗑
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| show | Bends knee (flexes knee)
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| Rectus femoris | show 🗑
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| show | Squeeze the thighs together
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| show | Dorsiflexion and inversion of the
foot (and supports medial arch
of foot).
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| Soleus | show 🗑
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| Gastrocnemius | show 🗑
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| intercalated discs | show 🗑
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| hyperplasia | show 🗑
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| show | mature cells
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| myoblasts | show 🗑
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| show | cell membrane in muscle cell/fibre
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| show | tubes that extend from cell membrane into muscle cells
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| show | stores calcium needs for muscle contraction
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| myoglobin | show 🗑
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| myofibrils | show 🗑
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| myofilaments | show 🗑
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| actin | show 🗑
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| myosin | show 🗑
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| show | basic unit of striated muscle
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| show | dense sheet of connective tissue that organises muscle, secures it to skin and provides stability
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