Muscles:
I. Types
a. Skeletal
b. Cardiac
c. Smooth
II. Differ in
a. Cell structure
b. Body location
c. How they are stimulated to contract
III. Similarities
a. Elongated
i. Reason they are called muscle fibers
b. shorten and contract
c. terminology
i. myo and mys mean muscle
ii. sarco means flesh
IV. Skeletal muscle (terms to remember skeletal, striated
and voluntary)
a. Fibers packed together to make skeletal muscle
b. Attach to the skeleton
c. Cover bones to make contours smooth
d. Fibers are
i. Cigar shaped
ii. Multinucleate
iii. Some up to 1 foot in length
iv. So large they can be seen with the naked eye
1. antigravity muscles
2. example hip
e. known as striated
i. fibers appear striped
