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5.1 Muscle Tissue
Muscle Tissue Categories & Functions
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| agonist | role played by a skeletal muscle to cause a movement |
| antagonist | role played by a skeletal muscle acting to slow or stop a movement |
| aponeurosis | a flat, sheetlike fibrous tissue that connects muscle or bone to other tissues |
| concentric | a type of contraction that results in shortening of a muscle |
| Contractility | the ability to contract or shorten |
| eccentric | contraction accompanied by lengthening of a muscle |
| Endomysium | a fine, protective sheath of connective tissue around a skeletal muscle fiber |
| epimysium | the outermost sheath of connective tissue that surrounds a skeletal muscle |
| Extensibility | the ability to be stretched |
| Fascicle | bundle of muscle fibers |
| irritability | ability to respond to a stimulus |
| isometric | a type of contraction that involves no change in muscle length |
| muscle fiber | an individual skeletal muscle cell |
| perimysium | a connective tissue sheath that envelops each primary bundle of muscle fibers |
| Peristalsis | a wave of symmetrical squeezing of the digestive tract walls that occurs during digestion |
| Sarcolemma | the delicate membrane surrounding each striated muscle fiber |
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