Describe the tendon continuum
Q: Define Achilles tendon
A: The skeletal and muscular systems are involved in voluntary movement. When muscles contract, they…
Q: Explain how muscle fibers regenerate.
A: Muscle tissue contains something called muscle fibers. Muscle fibers consist of a single muscle…
Q: Define involuntary
A: Involuntary term means the thing or an action which is not under our control. There are voluntary as…
Q: Describe how tendons facilitate body movement.
A: The joints, bones and muscles present in our body works in a coordinated way to provide locomotion…
Q: Define sarcomere
A: Sarcomere can be defined as the unit of contraction in the muscle fibres. It consists of the actin…
Q: Describe muscle tone, and explain its significance.
A: Skeletal muscle is a striated muscle generally attached to the skeleton. 40-50% of the bodyweight of…
Q: Define smooth muscle and cardial muscle tissue?
A: Muscle tissue is a specialized tissue found in animals, which is composed of cells that have the…
Q: Why don't the brain or spinal cord have a serous membrane covering them? Hint: think about the…
A: Brain is a complex part of the body which is very important in our body to handle all the activities…
Q: Explain reciprocal innervation of skeletal muscles.
A: The principle of reciprocal innervation—the contraction of one muscle or group of muscles with the…
Q: Define muscular system
A: Muscles of the vascular, smooth, and cardiac systems make up the muscular system. It allows the body…
Q: Which type of muscle tissue lacks striations?
A: A tissue is a group of cells that have similar structure and these functions together as a Unit.…
Q: escribe the sequence of events that occurs from the time the patellar tendon is stretched to the…
A: Muscle is the system that controls the movement of organisms. This is also responsible for…
Q: Differentiate between Cardiac muscle and striated muscle.
A: Muscle tissue is soft tissues that provide ability to contract. Cardiac muscle, skeletal muscle, and…
Q: What is the predominant fiber found in tendons and ligaments?
A: A tendon helps a bone or other component in their movement. A ligament is essentially a fibrous…
Q: Define Golgi tendon organ
A: The human musculoskeletal system (also known as the human locomotor system) is a system of organs…
Q: Explain what muscle compartments are and describe how they are separated from each other?
A: The body tissue which is derived from the middle germ layer called the mesoderm during embryonic…
Q: Describe the difference between a tendon and an aponeurosis.
A: Our bones, muscles and joints serve jointly in a cooperative way to move our body and allow it…
Q: Define tendon
A: Tendon is a type of connective tissue that attaches a muscle to other body parts, that is bones.…
Q: The muscle tissue that is striated is (a) skeletal muscle, (b) cardiac muscle, (c) smooth muscle,…
A: The human beings' muscular system comprises three different types of muscle; these are cardiac…
Q: Differentiate voluntary from involuntary muscle.
A: Step 1 Muscles are bundles of fibrous tissue in our body which can contract and expand, are able of…
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