Muscle Exam Questions and Answers
Sarcolemma - correct Answer-Muscle plasma membrane
Sarcoplasm - correct Answer-Cytoplasm of a muscle cell
Skeletal Muscle Tissue - correct Answer-Voluntary, striations contracts rapidly but tires
easily, body motion, posture, heat,
Cardiac Muscle Tissue - correct Answer-Occurs only in heart, is striated, involuntary,
contracts at steady rate, responds to changes in bodily needs, courses blood through
body
Smooth Muscle - correct Answer-Not striated, involuntary, found in walls of visceral
organs, maintains blood pressure, food through organs
Excitability - correct Answer-The ability of receive and respond to stimuli
Contractibility - correct Answer-The ability to shorten forcibly
Extensibility - correct Answer-The ability to be stretched or extended
Elasticity - correct Answer-The ability to recoil and resume the original resting length
Endomysium - correct Answer-Fine sheath of connective tissue composed of reticular
fibers surrounding each muscle fiber
Perimysium - correct Answer-Fibrous connective tissue that surrounds groups of muscle
fibers called fascicles
Epimysium - correct Answer-An overcoat of dense regular connective tissue that
surrounds the entire muscle
Direct Muscle attachment - correct Answer-Epimysium of the muscle is fused to the
periosteum of a bone
Indirect muscle attachment - correct Answer-Connective tissue wrappings extend
beyond the muscle as a tendon or aponeurosis
Myofibrils - correct Answer-Rodlike contractile elements make most of the muscle
volume A bands and light I bands
Sarcolemma - correct Answer-Muscle plasma membrane
Sarcoplasm - correct Answer-Cytoplasm of a muscle cell
Skeletal Muscle Tissue - correct Answer-Voluntary, striations contracts rapidly but tires
easily, body motion, posture, heat,
Cardiac Muscle Tissue - correct Answer-Occurs only in heart, is striated, involuntary,
contracts at steady rate, responds to changes in bodily needs, courses blood through
body
Smooth Muscle - correct Answer-Not striated, involuntary, found in walls of visceral
organs, maintains blood pressure, food through organs
Excitability - correct Answer-The ability of receive and respond to stimuli
Contractibility - correct Answer-The ability to shorten forcibly
Extensibility - correct Answer-The ability to be stretched or extended
Elasticity - correct Answer-The ability to recoil and resume the original resting length
Endomysium - correct Answer-Fine sheath of connective tissue composed of reticular
fibers surrounding each muscle fiber
Perimysium - correct Answer-Fibrous connective tissue that surrounds groups of muscle
fibers called fascicles
Epimysium - correct Answer-An overcoat of dense regular connective tissue that
surrounds the entire muscle
Direct Muscle attachment - correct Answer-Epimysium of the muscle is fused to the
periosteum of a bone
Indirect muscle attachment - correct Answer-Connective tissue wrappings extend
beyond the muscle as a tendon or aponeurosis
Myofibrils - correct Answer-Rodlike contractile elements make most of the muscle
volume A bands and light I bands
