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Siade Grayeb Regina

Cota Gonzalez Ana Paula
Moreira Montes Maria
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MUSCULAR SYSTEM:
INDEX:

1. What is the muscular system?

a. Its functions
2. Muscle types
a. Smooth muscle
b. Cardiac muscle
c. Skeletal muscle
3. Musculoskeletal system
4. References
1. What is the muscular system?

THE MUSCULAR SYSTEM:

The muscular system is the one responsible for the movement of the human
body. It makes up for approximately half of a person´s body weight, there
are roughly 700 muscles in our bodies and each of them is made of skeletal
muscle tissue, blood vessels, nerves, and tendons.
Muscle tissue can also be found in the heart, in our digestive organs, and
our blood vessels, and functions to move substances throughout the body.
As it is known the muscular system´s main function is to allow humans to
move when the contract contributes to movements whether fine or gross. 

However, there are 10 main points related to the functions of the muscular
system that are the ones that follow:
1. Mobility: Gross movements like walking, running, and swimming; Fine
movements like writing, speaking, and facial expressions.
2. Stability: tendons stretch on joints and they contribute to our joint stability
(knees, shoulders, elbows), also core muscles stabilize our body.
3. Posture: the muscles help keep the correct position when we are sitting
or standing, meaning that good posture relies on strong flexible muscles.
4. Circulation: The cardiac muscle is the one responsible to circulate the
blood around the body, while there are muscles in arteries and veins,
that maintain blood pressure in the event of dehydration.
5. Respiration: The diaphragm muscle is involved in breathing, but to
breathe more deeply we need the back, neck, and abdomen muscles.
6. Digestion: Smooth muscles in the gastrointestinal tract control digestion
and help us evacuate the feces, thanks to the bowel movements that are
achieved by the contraction of smooth muscles
7. Urination: muscles in the bladder, kidneys, penis, vagina and must work
together with nerves to urinate
8. Vision: Six skeletal muscles around the eye control its movements they
help to: maintain a stable image, scan the surrounding area and track
moving objects.
9. Organ protection: Muscles in the torso protect the internal organs.
10. Temperature regulation: Shivering the muscles help maintain the
temperature when the optimal body temperature is lower than usual.
2. Different muscle types:

MUSCLE TYPES:
There are three types of muscles: Visceral or smooth, Cardiac, and Skeletal.

VISCERAL MUSCLE:
The visceral muscle is commonly found inside organs like the intestines,
stomach, and some blood vessels. It is known as the weakest of all muscle
types and is responsible for the contractions inside the organs to move
substances. It is also controlled unconsciously by the brain, so it is
categorized as an involuntary muscle.
We call it smooth muscle since when looked under the microscope it
contains a very uniform and smooth appearance.

CARDIAC MUSCLE:
This type of muscle is only found in the heart and is responsible for pumping
blood to the body, and as the visceral muscle it is categorized as an
involuntary muscle. The cardiac muscle instructs itself to contract, and the
natural pacemaker of the heart is made of cardiac muscle (sinus node).
The cells of cardiac muscle have light and dark stripes when you look at
them under the microscope this is called striations and it indicates that the
muscle cell is very strong.

SKELETAL MUSCLES:
Skeletal muscles are the only voluntary muscle tissue that we have in our
body, meaning that it is controlled consciously, skeletal muscle is used for
every physical action that a person performs, they contract to move parts of
our body, and most of them are attached to bones across a joint.
The skeletal fibers are very strong and form straight, long multinucleated
fibers
3. Musculoskeletal system:
Our musculoskeletal system includes our bones, muscles, tendons,
ligaments and our soft tissue:
1. Bones: protect organs, tissues, store the calcium and fat produced by
blood cells, they also provide structure and form to our bodies.
2. Cartilage: connective tissue that cushions bones inside our joints, also
found in our spine and of course ribcage, meaning that they protect our
bones from rubbing together.
3. Joints: Our bones come together to form said joints some joints have a
wide range of movement like our shoulders and others have less range
of movement like the knee joint.
4. Ligaments: These are made of tough collagen fibers and connect our
bones while helping stabilize our joints.
5. Tendons: Connect our muscles to bones and are made of fibrous tissue
and collagen.
Our musculoskeletal system works through a series of steps including our
nervous system, muscle fibers, and tendons:
1. Firstly our nervous system mainly our brain and nerves send a message
to activate our skeletal muscles, that, as seen before are our voluntary
muscles.
2. Then our muscle fibers contract or tense up responding to the message
which was from the brain through our nerves.
3. Then the muscle activates and pulls on the tendon. ( tendons attach our
muscles to our bones)
4. Subsequently the tendon pulls the bone forcing it to move
5. Lastly our nervous system sends another signal to relax our muscle and
the process repeats itself again.
1. The gluteus maximus is the body’s largest muscle. It is in the
buttocks and helps humans maintain an upright posture.
 4. REFERENCES:

Taylor, T. (2020). Muscular system - muscles of the human body. [online]

InnerBody. Available at: https://www.innerbody.com/image/musfov.html.

‌Cleveland Clinic (2022). Musculoskeletal System: Arthritis, Lower Back Pain,

Bones, Muscles. [online] Cleveland Clinic. Available at:
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/12254-musculoskeletal-
system-normal-structure--function#:~:text=Your%20musculoskeletal
%20system%20includes%20bones.