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Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Skelatal Muscle : easy general features

Muscle: is one of the basic tissue contain
specialized contractile cells with
moderate amount of connective tissue
Muscle means 'mouse like' structure


Muscles are three types:
skeletal muscle
cardiac muscle
smooth muscle
skeletal muscle: this type of muscle attached with bones (skeleton) 
Parts : each muscle has two part


Fleshy part : formed by  skeletal muscle cell (muscle fibre) .the direction of muscle fiber vary cell to cell
Fibrous part:
tendon : dense regular connective tissue. usually cylindrical in shape  
Aponeurosis : connective tissue membrane ( dense regular connective tissue) 

 each  skeletal muscle has two or more attachment site 
origin : also known as proximal attachment. Attachment nearer to trunk
insertion :  also known as distal attachment. Attachment away from  trunk

Two attachment, origin and insertion never occurs  in same bone 
each muscle of body must cross a joint or joints.



This muscle responsible for the movement of this joint 


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