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Research draft

muscle

vr.tr.muscle · PHY.LIV

Let an agent handle muscles by type, location, function, fitness and injury, referring medical questions to professionals.

Thing Registry Physical world and living systems

Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify

Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent handle muscles by type, location, function, fitness and injury, referring medical questions to professionals.

A soft tissue made of contractile cells that produces force and motion; the three types are skeletal (striated, voluntary), cardiac (striated, involuntary) and smooth muscle.

What it is for: Movement, posture, heart pumping, digestion and heat production.

It can be train and strengthen them; stretch and warm up; recover from strain; see a professional for injury or weakness.

Distinguishing features

Contractile tissue

Three types

Skeletal is voluntary, cardiac and smooth are involuntary

Mass declines with age without exercise

What it looks like

Red striated fibres in skeletal and cardiac muscle; smooth muscle lines organs.

Physical character

share of body mass (skeletal): 30-40 percent - adults, varies

number of skeletal muscles: about 600 muscles - human

How it is recognised

Striated or smooth under the microscope

Named muscles such as biceps

Muscle tissue types are separate entries

Related models

is a kind of - anatomy

tissue and anatomical structure

moves - function

bone and joint

is controlled by - control

nerve

is part of - body

human body

In practice

Families and kinds

skeletal muscle

cardiac muscle

smooth muscle

named muscles by region

Identifiers

FMA or Uberon id ontology identifiers anatomy terms

Standards and regulation

Terminologia Anatomica

Physical activity guidelines such as WHO

Failure modes and hazards

Strains and tears

Unexplained weakness or pain needing medical assessment

Rhabdomyolysis after extreme exertion

Also called

striated muscle tissuecardiac musclesstriated visceral musclestriated cutaneous muscleskeletal muscle tissuecardiac muscle tissue of atriumconducting tissue of heartcardiac muscle tissue of ventriclecardiac muscle tissue of auriclecardiac muscle tissue of papillary musclecardiac muscle tissue of trabecula carneacardiac muscle tissue of septomarginal trabeculacardiac muscle tissue of pectinate muscleCardiac muscle tissue of region of myocardium of left ventricleCardiac muscle tissue of cardiac septumCardiac muscle tissue of region of myocardium of right ventricleCardiac muscle tissue of myocardium of outflow part of left ventricleCardiac muscle tissue of myocardium of outflow part of right ventricleCardiac muscle tissue of myocardium of inflow part of left ventricleCardiac muscle tissue of myocardium properCardiac muscle tissue of myocardium of inflow part of right ventricleCardiac muscle tissue of myocardiumCardiac muscle tissue of myocardium of atrium properMuscel tissue of crista supraventricularis (volume)antitragicus musclehelicis majorhelicis minorOblique muscle of auricletragicus musclemuscle of terminal notchpyramidal muscle of auricletransverse muscle of the chintransverse muscle of auricledepressor supercilii muscleright antitragicusleft antitragicusright helicis majorleft helicis majorright helicis minorleft helicis minor

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Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Also registered as vr.tr.muscle-person

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Type Which muscle.

Type decides function.

Kind

Skeletal, cardiac, smooth.

Kind

Muscle type.

  1. Which type of muscle is meant? definition
  2. Which named muscle? definition

Location

Anatomy.

Location

Location.

  1. Where is it, and what does it attach to? definition
  2. Which nerve supplies it? definition
Function What it does.

Function explains movement.

Action

Movement.

Action

Action.

  1. What movement does it produce? definition
  2. Which muscles work with or against it? definition

Physiology

Contraction.

Physiology

Physiology.

  1. How does it contract? definition
  2. What fuels it? definition
Fitness Training.

Muscles adapt.

Strength

Training.

Strength

Strength training.

  1. What training builds strength safely? action
  2. What do activity guidelines recommend? provenance

Recovery

Rest.

Recovery

Recovery.

  1. How long should recovery take? measurement
  2. What helps? action
Health Injury and disease.

Symptoms need professionals.

Injury

Strains.

Injury

Injury.

  1. Is this a minor strain or does it need assessment? boundary
  2. Which warning signs need urgent care? boundary

Disease

Conditions.

Disease

Muscle conditions.

  1. Could weakness indicate a condition needing a doctor? boundary
  2. Who should be consulted? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should muscle types be separate entries?
  • How should named muscles be linked?
  • How should medical symptoms be routed?
Draft as JSON