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Muscular System

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What type of movement is involuntary?

a)

Mastication

b)

Digestion

c)

Adduction

d)

Extension

2.

All the muscle within the body has a relationship with the ______ system to produce movement and contraction.

a)

Cardiovascular

b)

Skeletal

c)

Nervous

d)

Respiration

3.

Striation refers to what?

a)

Branching

b)

Multi nuclei

c)

Spindling

d)

Banding

4.

What type of muscle tissue has numerous nuclei within each cell?

a)

Visceral smooth muscle

b)

Cardiac Muscle

c)

Skeletal muscle

d)

Multiunit smooth muscle

5.

What type of muscle is small and delicate and found within the iris of the eye?

a)

Visceral smooth muscle

b)

Cardiac muscle

c)

Skeletal muscle

d)

Multiunit smooth muscle

6.

In what range of motion does the limb move away from the median plane?

a)

Abduction

b)

Adduction

c)

Extension

d)

Flexion

7.

What muscle flexes the jaw?

a)

Brachiocephalicus

b)

Deltoid

c)

Masseter

d)

Trapezius

8.

What muscle extends the head?

a)

Latissimus dorsi

b)

Trapezius

c)

Triceps brachii

d)

Semitendinosus

9.

What muscle has its origin in the femur and its insertion in the tibia?

a)

Biceps femoris

b)

Deltoid

c)

Quadriceps

d)

Triceps brachii

10.

What muscle is not part of the thoracic limb?

a)

Brachiocephalicus

b)

Deltoid

c)

Pectoral

d)

Triceps brachii

11.

What term means “loss of muscle mass”?

a)

Atrophy

b)

Dystrophy

c)

Myopathy

d)

Myositis

12.

What muscular disease can be caused from trauma?

a)

Polymyositis

b)

Myasthenia gravis

c)

Masticatory myositis

d)

Muscular rupture

13.

What disease is not immune-mediated?

a)

Myasthenia gravis

b)

Polymyositis

c)

Non-inflammatory myotonia

d)

Masticatory myositis

14.

What disease is associated with the animal not being able to pick up a toy?

a)

Myasthenia gravis

b)

Polymyositis

c)

Muscular dystrophy

d)

Masticatory myositis

15.

What disease is defined as “persistent contraction of muscle fibers when beginning to move”?

a)

Non-inflammatory myotonia

b)

Polymyositis

c)

Myasthenia gravis

d)

Non-inflammatory myopathy