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Anatomy

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Contractility   ability of skeletal muscle to shorten with force  
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Excitability   capacity of skeletal muscle to respond to a stimulus  
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Extensibilty   ability to be stretched  
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Elasticity   ability to recoil to their original resting length after they have been stretched  
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Muscles help   Helps produce heat essential for maintenance of normal body temperature  
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Epimysium   connective tissue sheath that surrounds each skeletal muscle directly upon it  
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Fascia   most superficial connective tissue outside the epimysium which surrounds and separates the muscles  
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Fasciculi   numerous visible bundles that compose muscle  
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Perimysium   loose connective tissue which surrounds that fasciculi  
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Four major functional characteristics of muscles   contractility, excitability, extensibility, elasticity  
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Muscle cells   muscle fibers  
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What fasciculi are compose of   muscle fibers (muscle cells)  
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Single cylindrical cell containing several nuclei   each muscle fiber  
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Endomysium   connective tissue sheath that surrounds each muscle fiber  
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Cytoplasm of each fiber is filled with this   myofibrils  
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Myofibril   threadlike structure that extends from one end of the fiber to the other  
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2 major kinds of myofibrils   actin and myosin myofilaments  
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Actin myofilament   thin myofilaments which resemble 2 pearl strands twisted together  
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Myosin myofilaments   thick myofilaments that resemble bundles of golf clubs  
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Sarcomere   highly ordered unit formed by actin and myosin filaments that join end to end and form a myofibril. Basic structural and functional unity of the muscle that Extends from z line to z line  
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Z line   attachment point for actin  
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I band   light area on each side of a z line that consists of actin  
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A band   darker central region in each sarcomere that extends the length of the mysoin  
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H zone   light center of each sarcomere that consists of only myosin  
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M line   myosin myofilaments are anchored in the center of the sacromere at a dark staining band  
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Resting Membrane Potential   the charge difference across the membrane  
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Positive Charge   outside of most cell membranes  
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Negative Charge   inside of most cell membranes  
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Action Potential   Reversal back of the charge when a muscle cell is stimulated that characteristics change briefly  
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Motor Neurons   nerve cells that carry action potentials to skeletal muscle fibers  
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Where Axons enter   The muscles and branch  
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Neuromuscular Junction (synapse)   what forms near the center of the cell when a branch connects to the muscles  
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Motor Unit   a single motor neuron and all the skeletal muscle fibers it innervates. motor units form a single muscle  
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How a neuromuscular junction is formed   when an enlarged nerve terminal resting in an indentation of the muscle cell membrane  
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Presynaptic terminal   enlarged nerve terminal  
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Synaptic cleft   space between the presynaptic terminal and the muscle cell  
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Postsynaptic terminal   the muscle fiber  
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Acetylcholine   diffuses across the synaptic cleft and binds the postsynaptic terminal causing a change in the postsynaptic cell  
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Synaptic Vessels   within each presynaptic terminal and secrete a neurotransmitter called acetylcholine  
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Acetylcholinesterase   rapid enzymatic breakdown when acetylcholine is released into the synaptic cleft between the neuron and the muscle cell which ensures that one action potential in the neuron yields only one action potential in the skeletal muscle, and only one contraction  
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Muscle contraction   occurs as actin and myosin myofilaments slide past one another causing the sarcomeres to shorten  
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Sliding filament mechanism   the sliding of actin myofilaments past myosin myofilaments during contraction.  
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H and I bands during muscle contraction   shorten  
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A bands during muscle contraction   do not change length  
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Threshold   when a muscle fiber will not respond to stimulus  
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all-or-none response   when threshold happens and the muscle fiber contracts maximally  
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Lag phase   time between application of a stimulus to a motor neuron and the beginning of a contraction  
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Contraction phase   time of contraction  
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relaxation phase   time during which the muscle relaxes  
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Successive twitches   occur when successive stimuli are given so frequently, the muscle doesn't have time to fully relax  
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Tetany   where the muscle remains contracted without relaxing  
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Recruitment   increase in number of moror units being activated  
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ATP   adenosine triphosphate needed for energy for muscle contraction. Produced through mitochondria, short-lived and unstable.  
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ADP   adenosine diphosphate is was ATP degenerates too. more stable  
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Muscle cells constantly produce   ATP  
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Creatine phosphate   ATP can't stockpile, but is stored as this high energy molecule  
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Anaerobic respiration   with out oxygen  
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Aerobic respiration   with oxygen  
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oxygen debt   amount of oxygen needed in chemical reactions to convert lactic acid to glucose and to replenish the depleted stores of creatine phosphate stores in muscle cells  
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muscle fatigue   when ATP is used during muscle contraction faster than it can be produced in the muscle cells  
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2 typed of muscle contraction   isometric and isotonic  
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Isometric   equal distance, the length of the muscle does not change, but the amount of tension increases during the contraction process  
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Isotonic   equal tension, the length of the muscle changes but the tension remains constant  
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muscle tone   refers to constant tension produced by muscles of the body for long periods of time. (keep up and back straight)  
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fast-twitch fibers   contract quickly and fatigue quickly. well adapted to perform anaerobic metabolism (white meat of chicken breast)  
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slow-twitch fibers   contract more slowly and are more resistant to fatigue. They are better suited for aerobic metabolism (dark meat of chicken legs)  
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Attachment points for muscle   origin and insertion  
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Origin   most stationary end of a muscle  
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Insertion   end of a muscle undergoing the greatest movement  
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Belly   portion of muscle between the origin and insertion  
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Multiple origins   some muscles have multiple origins or head  
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Synergists   muscles that work together to accomplish specific movements  
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Antagonists   muscles that work in opposition to one another  
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Prime mover   a muscle that plays a major role in a group of synergist  
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Nomenclature   how muscles are named by location, size, orientation of fibers, shape, origin, insertion, and function  
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frontalis   raises eyebrows  
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orbicularis oculi   closes eyes  
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orbicularis oris   moves mouth  
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buccinator   flattens cheeks  
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zygomatic   smiling  
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levator labil superioris   sneering  
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depressor anguli oris   frowning  
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mastication   chewing  
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4 pairs of chewing muscles   temporalis, masseter, and pterygoid  
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2 types of tongue muscles   intrinsic and extrinsic  
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Intrinsic tongue muscles   changes shape of tongue  
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extrinsic tongue muscles   moves tongue  
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Soft palate muscles   close the posterior nasal cavity to keep liquid and food from entering it  
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swallowing   constriction of the pharynx and larynx, elevation of the pharynx  
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pharyngeal elevators   elevate pharynx  
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pharyngeal constrictors   constrict pharynx  
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sternocleidomastoid   lateral neck muscle that rotates and abducts the head  
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torticollis   twisted/wry neck  
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sacrolemma   oval nuclei that can be seen beneath the plasma  
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axon   neuron process that carries impluses away from the nerve cell body; the conducting portion of a nerve cell  
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fixators   muscles acting to immobilize a joint or bone; fixes the origin of a muscle so the muscle action can be exerted at the insertion  
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motor unit   motor neuron and all the muscle cells it supplies  
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internal intercostals   inhale  
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external intercostals   forced exhale (sigh)  
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diaphragm   dome shaped muscle that divides thoracic cavity from the abdominal cavity (quiet breathing)  
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Abdominal muscle   keeps guts in  
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lines alba   white line down the middle of the abdomen  
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rectus abdominis   abdominals; external obliques; flexes the vertebral column  
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tendinous inscriptions   white connective tissue that crosses the rectus abdominis to give a segmented look (abs)  
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arrector spinea   on each side of the vertebral column; keep back straight and body erect  
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Face and Neck muscles   temporalis, frontalis, orbicularis oculi, zygomaticus, orbicularis oris, sternocleidomastiod, masseter, platysma  
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arm muscles   deltoid, triceps brachii, biceps brachii, brachialis, brachioradialis, flexor carpi radialis  
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Trunk muscles   pectoralis major, rectus abdominis, external oblique, latissimus dorsi, gluteus medius, gluteus maximus  
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leg muscles   quadriceps, satorius, hamstrings, gastrocnemius, soleus, extensor digitorum longus, calcaneal (achilles) tendon  
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