[8] EOPA Review: Allied Health: Muscles

One of the characteristics of muscles is

extensibility. This allows muscles to:

• Stretch

• React to an impulse

• Contract

• Consume oxygen

Which of the following is one of the properties of muscles?

• Excitability

• Stability

• Portability

The walls of the heart are made of:

• Striated muscle

• Coronary muscle

• Voluntary muscle

• Cardiac muscle

Where would you find a voluntary muscle?

• Attached to the femur

• In blood vessel walls

• Lining the stomach

• Inside the heart

After you swallow food, what kind of muscle moves the food toward your stomach?

• Skeletal

• Smooth

• Cardiac

• Voluntary

The tough, sheetlike membrane that covers and protects muscle is:

• Periostum

• A ligament

• A tendon

• Fascia

What muscle movement occurs when you move your hand from an open palm to a fist?

• Adduction

• Extension

• Flexion

• Abduction

When a muscle attaches to a bone, the end that does not move is the:

• Tendon

• Origin

• Root

• Insertion

Of the following, what muscle is superior to the other three?

• Intercostals

• Sternocleidomastoid

• Gastrocnemius

• Trapezius

Of the following, what muscle would do the most work if you ran five miles?

• Sternocleidomastoid

• Biceps

• Quadriceps Femoris

• Pectoralis Major