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Muscle Types Quiz
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Muscle Fibers | Muscle cells |
| Myofilaments | Impacts a muscles ability to contract |
| Endomysium | Delicate connective tissue sheath that encloses each muscle fiber |
| Perimysium | Fibrous membrane that wraps around several sheathed muscle fibers |
| Fascicle | A bundle of fibers |
| Epimysium | A coat of connective tissue that bounds many fascicles |
| Origin | Point of attachment to the immoveable or less moveable bone |
| Insertion | Point of attachment to the moveable bone |
| Prime mover | The muscle that has the majority of the responsibility for causing a particular movement |
| Antagonist | Muscles that oppose or reverse a movement |
| Synergists | Help prime movers by producing the same movement or by reducing undesirable movements by stabilizing them |
| Fixators | Specialized synergists. They hold a bone still or stabilize the origin of a prime mover so that all the tension can be used to move the insertion bone |