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anatomy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 | |
| epimysium | surrounds each skeletal muscle |
| fascia | a connective tissue outside the epimysium |
| perimysium | surrounds the fasciculi |
| fibers | the fasciculi of a lot of these |
| endomysium | surrounds each fiber |
| myofibrils | a thread like structure that extends from one end of the fiber to the other |
| actin myofilament | |
| myosin myofilaments | thick, resemble bundles of minute golf clubs |
| sarcomeres | actin and myosin myofilaments form highly ordered units |