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Muscular System
The muscular system allows humans to move. Muscles also provide strength, balance and heat.
11,239 Questions
Which muscles form the epicranius?
Frontalis
Occipitalis
Temporoparietalis
Auricularis Anterior
Auricularis Superior
Auricularis Posterior
Occipitalis
(Galea Aponeurotica)
What are the threats of the muscular system?
Injuries of the muscles:
- Strain is the tearing or stretching of muscles of too apart.
- Cramp is the uncontrollable contraction of the muscles.
- Bruise appears when you bumped to a hard object but it is normal to have one since sometimes they show up without any causes.
Diseases of the muscles:
- Tendinitis is the swelling or inflammation of the tendons.
- Trigger finger is the inflammation of the sheath that encloses the tendons together.
- Tumor is the abnormal mass of tissue. It is formed when some cells in the body reproduce fast.
- Myasthenia Gravis is a disease in which the muscles tire easily.
- Muscular Dystrophy is an inherited disorder in which the muscles slowly but progressively becomes weak.
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Which type of muscle tissue contains striations?
Striations are cause by pooling of blood after death in the direction of where the body originally was before being moved.
My answer would be....
The arrangement of myofilaments(actin/ myosin) on a myofibril produce the striations of a skeletal muscle cell . Also myofibrils align to give distinct bands. :)
Hope that helps :D
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That is the correct spelling of "pectoral" (muscle of the upper chest).
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How can you open your mouth wider?
You can't. You can only open your mouth as wide as your jaw will let you.
Which cells from the anterior gray horn are the only ones that terminate in skeletal muscle cells?
Axons from the anterior gray horn are the only ones that terminate in skeletal muscle cells.
This principle of the final common path to skeletal muscles has important practical implications.
What muscle cause the skin to pucker around a hair when exposed to a sudden chill?
When exposed to a sudden chill the arrector pili will cause the skin to pucker around a hair.
Physical evidence that supports the sliding filament theory of muscle contraction includes?
decreased width of the H band during contraction
