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Anatomy Ch. 6
Term | Definition |
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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 |