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muscles
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Epimysium | Exterior collagen layer separates muscles from surroundi BG tissue |
| Perimysium | Surround muscles fiber bundles contain blood vessel and nerve supply to fascicies |
| Endoysium | Surrounds individual muscle cells |
| Tendon | Inelastic cord of strong fibrous collagen tissue attaching a muscle to a bone |
| Muscle fibers | |
| Myoblast | Embryonic progenitor cell that differitiate to give rise to muscle cells |
| Sacrocoplasm | The cytoplasm of striated muscle cells |
| Transverse tubuled | Plasma membrane of skeletAL muscle and cardiac muscles cells |
| Action potential | The change in electrical potential associated with the passage of an impulse along the membrane of a muscle cell or nerve cell |
| Myofilaments | Filaments of myofibrils constructed from proteins |
| Thin filament | A myofilament of the two types making up myofibrils that is about 5 nanometers |
| Thick filament | A myofilament of one of the two types making up myofibrils that is 10 to 12 |
| Sacroplasm | The cytoplasm of a striated muscle fiber |
| Triad | |
| Cisternae | |
| Sarcomeres | |
| Myofilaments | |
| Strated | |
| Troponin | |
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