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muscles and fibers
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. the ability of skeletal muscle to shorten with force. | Contractility |
| 2. the capacity of skeletal muscle to respond to a stimulus. | Excitability |
| 3. the ability to be streched. | Extensibility |
| 4. ability to recoil to their original resting length after they have been streched. | Elasticity |
| 5. each skeletal muscle is surrounded by a connective tissue sheath called the. | Epimysium |
| 6. is another connective tissue located outside of the epimysium. | Fascia |
| 7. a muscle is composed of numerous visible bundles called muscle fasciculi which are surrounded by loose connective tissue called the. | Perimysium |
| 8. the fasciculi are conposed of single muscle cells called. | Fibers |
| 9. each fiber is surrounded by |