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Muscular System: Laboratory Exercise No. 6

This document contains a laboratory exercise on the muscular system. It includes questions to test understanding of muscle structure and function, such as how electrical impulses are transmitted between neurons and muscle cells, identification of specific muscles, and comparisons of the three main types of muscle tissue. The student is asked to identify muscles based on their actions, relate muscle names to naming criteria like shape or location, and correlate muscle structure with function.

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Muscular System: Laboratory Exercise No. 6

This document contains a laboratory exercise on the muscular system. It includes questions to test understanding of muscle structure and function, such as how electrical impulses are transmitted between neurons and muscle cells, identification of specific muscles, and comparisons of the three main types of muscle tissue. The student is asked to identify muscles based on their actions, relate muscle names to naming criteria like shape or location, and correlate muscle structure with function.

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Name: JOY BORLAGDAN.

Date: OCTOBER 14, 2020


Year & Sec.: BSN 1A. Score: ____________________

LABORATORY EXERCISE NO. 6

Muscular System
Objective: To correlate the structure of muscles with its various functions.

1. Why is it that the electrical impulse cannot pass from neuron to muscle cell? (5points )
THE ELECTRICAL IMPULSE CANNOT PASS FROM NEURON TO MUSCLE CELL BECAUSE THE
NEURON AND MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANES, CLOSE AS THEY ARE DO NOT ACTUALLY
TOUCH. THEY ARE SEPARATED BY A SMALL FLUID-FILLED GAP CALLED THE SYPNATIC
CLEFT.

2. Identify the muscles described below by completing the statements:

1. DELTOID are commonly used for intramuscular injections (three


2. VASTUS LATERALIS muscles)
3. GLUTEUS MEDIUS
4. The insertion tendon of the QUADRICEPS group contains a large sesamoid bone, the
patella.
5. The triceps surae insert in common into the CALCANEAL tendon.
6. The bulk of the tissue of a muscle tends to lie PROXIMAL_ to the part of the body it
causes to move.
7. The extrinsic muscles of the hand originate on the HUMERUS, RADIUS,and ULNA.
8. Most flexor muscles on the ANTERIOR aspect of the body; most extensors are located 9.
POSTERIOR . An exception to this generalization is the extensor-flexor musculature of
the 10 KNEE.

3. Compare the similarities and differences of three muscle tissue types (20points )

A. CARDIAC MUSCLE is only found in the heart.

Its fibers are longer than they are wide, and they are striated, like skeletal muscle fibers. But, unlike
skeletal muscle fibers, cardiac muscle fibers have distinct ends to them, called intercalated discs.
Branching chain of cells; uninucleate. It's function is to contract to pump blood .Cardiac muscles are
roughly quadrangular in shape and have a single central nucleus.

B. SMOOTH MUSCLE is found in the walls of internal organs, such as the organs of the digestive
tract, blood vessels, and others. It consists of mononucleate fibers with tapered edges. No
striations are visible in smooth muscle under the microscope. It's function is involuntary
movement, moves food, involuntary control of respiration, moves secretions, regulates flow of
blood in arteries by contraction. Smooth muscles are composed of elongated, spindle shaped cells.

C. SKELETAL MUSCLE is found attached to bones. It consists of long multinucleate fibers.. Its cell
shape and appearance is single, very long, cylindrical multinucleate cells with very obvious
strations. It's function is voluntary movement, produces heat, protects organ.Skeletal muscles are
made up of cylindrical fibers which are found in the locomotive system.

SIMILARITIES;

There are striations in skeletal muscle and cardiac muscle.

Both cardiac and smooth muscle are involuntary.

Cardiac and Smooth muscle fibers are mononucleate,

They are all actin and myosin fiber.

4. Identify the muscles that described the terms below


ZYGOMATICUS 1. Used to grin
BUCCINATOR. 2. Important muscle to a saxophone player
ORBICULARIS OCULI 3. Used for blinking and squinting
PLATYSMA. 4. Used to pout (pulls the corners of the mouth downward)
FRONTALIS. 5. Raises your eyebrows for a questioning expression
ORBICULARIS ORIS 6. Your “kisser”
MASSETER 7. Allows you to “bite” that carrot stick
PLATYSMA 8. Tenses skin of the neck during shaving

5. Several criteria were given for naming of muscles. Identify muscle names that may fit the
criterion.

ADDUCTOR MAGNUS 1. Action of the muscle


DELTOID 2. Shape of the muscle
TRAPEZIUS_ 3. Location of the origin and/or insertion of the muscle

BICEPS 4. Number of origins

EXTENSOR CARPI ULNARIS 5. Location of the muscle relative


to a bone or body region
EXTERNAL OBLIQUE6. Direction in which the muscle
fibers run relative to some
imaginary line
RECTUS FEMORIS 7. Relative size of the muscle

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