Muscles re-cap questions

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Give three functions of muscles
Enable movement, prevent movement and generate heat
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Name the 3 types of muscle?
Skeletal, smooth and cardiac
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Give an example of where skeletal smooth and cardiac is found?
Cardiac- heart, smooth - bowel, bladder, blood vessels, uterus, resp tract, skeletal - attached to bones
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What are the names given to the filaments found in muscle?
Actin (thin) mysoin (thick)
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What does atrophy muscles mean?
When muscles become weak and lose fibres
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When a tendon is in the form of a fibrous sheet it is called what?
Aponeurosis
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What is the function of tendon?
Attach muscle to bone
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A muscle which runs from one region of the body to another is called?
Extrinisic
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What is the name given to the muscles which run above the vertebral column?
Epaxial
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What is the name given to the muscles of the chest which draw the ribs together?
Intercostals
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Which 3 structures pass through the aortic hiatus?
Aorta, azygous vein and thoracic duct
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Which 2 muscles act to close the jaw?
Temporalis and masseter
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Which of the abdominal muscles does not insert on the linea alba?
Rectus abdominis
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Which of the abdominal muscles is located the deepest?
Transversus abdominis
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Which 3 muscles make up the hamstring group?
Biceps femoris, semitendinosis and semimembranosus
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Which aspect of the hind limb are the hamstrings located?
Caudal aspect of thigh
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What is the main action of the hamstrings?
Extend whole limb bsckwards, provides main propulsive force when running
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Name two adductor muscles?
Adductor magnus, pectineus
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Which aspect of the hind limb are the adductors located?
Medial thigh
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What is the name of the large muscle that runs down the cranial aspect of the upper hind limb?
Quadraceps femoris
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The tendons of which 4 muscles make up the Achilles tendon?
Biceps fermoris, semitendinosis, gastrocnemius, superficial digital flexor
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Which of the above tendins does not insert on the calcaneus?
Superficial digital flexor
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Name the 3 types of muscle?

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Give an example of where skeletal smooth and cardiac is found?

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What are the names given to the filaments found in muscle?

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What does atrophy muscles mean?

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