Chapter 4 Test Review

Match the term with the best description:

• Narrow band of non-elastic tissue that connects muscle to bone

• fibers

• band of connective tissue that envelops and separates muscles

• aponeurosis

• long, slender cells that make up muscles

• fascia

• sheet-like connective tissue that connects multiple muscles to bone

• tendons

For the following statements, choose the option that best matches the description:

• spindle shaped

• myocardial

• located in the heart

• smooth

• located in the walls of internal organs

• myocardial and smooth

• involuntary

• skeletal and myocardial

• striated tissues

• smooth

Match the term about muscle contractions to the best description:

• tightening of a muscle

• muscle that moves in opposite to the primary muscle

• antagonist

• relaxation

• stimulation of a muscle by an impulse transmitted by a motor nerve

• muscle innervation

• muscle returns to its original form

• contraction

• agonist

• muscle that is the primary mover

Look at the image of the foot with an arrow indicating the movement. What type of movement is being shown?

• circumduction

• internal rotation

• abduction

• dorsiflexion

• flexion

This muscle is located on the medial thigh and is the largest muscle of the group. What is probably the name of this muscle?

• abductor longus

• adductor magnus

• gracilis

• adductor brevis

This muscle is located on the back of the shin bone. What is probably the name of this muscle?

• Fibularis longus

• Tibialis posterior

• Tibialis anterior

• Fibularis brevis

This muscle shrugs the shoulders upwards. What is probably the name of this muscle?

• rectus scapulae

• transverse scapulae

• levator scapulae

• depressor scapulae

This muscle moves the thumb away from the midline of the body. What is the name of this muscle?

• adductor pollicis longus

• abductor pollicis longus

• adductor digiti minimi

• abductor digiti minimi

These muscles are run between the ribs. What is probably the name of this muscle?

• intracostals

• intercostals

• intrachondrals

• interchondrals

Which is NOT a muscle of the quadriceps?

• Rectus femoris

• vastus lateralis

• vastus medialis

• sartorius