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muscle
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Excitability | capacity of skeletal muscle to respond to a stimulus |
| Extensibility | ability to be stretched |
| Elasticity | ability recoil to original shape after being stretched |
| Epimysium | |
| fascia | connective tissue located outside the epimysium |
| contractability | ability of skeletal muscle to shorten with force |
| fibers | fasciculi are composed of single muscle cells |
| perimysium | loose connective tisse surrounding the facicle |
| Endomysium | each fiber is surrounded by connective tissue sheath |
| Myofibrils | a thread like structure the extends to each end of fiber |
| actin Myofiliment | thin myofiliment |
| Actin Myofiliment | resembles two mintue strands of pearls twisted together |
| Myosin Myofiliments | thick myofiliments |
| Myosin Myofiliment | resemble bundles of minute golf clubs |
| Motor Neurons | nerve cells that carry action potentials to skeletal muscles |
| Synapse | each axon branch that connects to muscle |
| Motor Unit | a single motor neuron and all the skeletal muscle fiber it innervates |
| Presynaptic Terminal | enlarged nerve terminal |
| Synaptic Cleft | space between the presynaptic terminal and the muscle cell |
| Postsynaptic terminal | the muscle fiber |
| Sliding filament mechanism | Sliding of actin myofiliments past myosin myofiliments during contraction |
| Muscle twitch | contraction of entire muscle |
| threshold | a level of stimulusa muscle fiber must reach before it will respond |
| all-or-none response | when it reaches threshold, contract maximumly |
| 25-Lag phase | time between application of a stimulus to a motor neuron |
| contraction phase | the time of contration |
| relaxation phase |