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Anatomy Ch. 6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Contractility | the ability of skeletal muscle to shorten with force |
| Excitability | the capacity of skeletal muscle to respond to a stimulus |
| Extensibility | the ability to be stretched |
| Elasticity | ability to recoil to their original resting length after they have been stretched |
| Each skeletal muscle is surrounded by a connective tissue sheath called the | epimysium |
| Another connective tissue located outside the epimysium that surrounds and separates muscles | Fascia |
| The fasciculi are composed of a single muscle cells called | Fibers |