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Essential Question
What are the structures of the muscular system?

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The Muscular System

Comprises nearly half our weight. Over 650 muscles. Each muscle is made up of hundreds or thousands of muscle fibers.

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The Muscular System:

Muscle Fibers
Bundles of threadlike structures called myofibrils
Composed of:
Myosin Actin

Form overlapping pattern called sarcomere muscle muscle fiber sarcolemma sarcomere functional unit of muscle movement

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Muscles
Skeletal Smooth Cardiac Sphincter

Connective tissue
Tendons Fascia

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Types of muscle
Skeletal
Smooth

Cardiac
Sphincter

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Types of Muscle
Skeletal muscles
Attached to bone

Striated (striped) appearance

Voluntary Multinucleated muscle cell bundles

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Types of Muscle
Smooth muscles
Also known as visceral muscles

Involuntary
Located in walls of digestive system, uterus & blood vessels

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Types of Muscle
Cardiac muscle
Found only in the heart Striated, branched Involuntary Cells are fused- when one contracts, they all contract, creating the heartbeat

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Structures of the muscular system

Types of Muscle
Sphincter muscles
Also called dilator muscles Special, circular muscles Located in the
digestive system urinary system

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Types of Muscle
Skeletal

Smooth
Cardiac

Sphincter
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Structures of the muscular system

Types of Connective tissue
Tendons

Fascia

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Structures of the muscular system

Connective tissue
Tendons dense bands that connect skeletal muscle to the bone

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Connective tissue
Fascia
Fibrous connective tissue sheets that wrap around muscle bundles

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How do skeletal muscles get their names?

Location Size Direction Number of origins Location of origin and insertion Action flexor

Extensor
Depressor

However, not all muscles are named by the above methods!

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Head & Neck Muscles

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Torso/Trunk
(anterior)

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Torso/Trunk
(anterior)

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Torso/Trunk
(posterior)

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Upper extremities

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Lower extremities

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The muscular system review

Anterior view

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The muscular system review

Posterior view

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What are the structures of the muscular system?

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