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Muscles
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Four Major function Caracteristics | Contractility, Excitability, Extensibility, Elasticity |
| The ability of skeletal muscle to shorten with force | Contractility |
| The capacity of skeletal muscle to respond to a stimulus | Excitability |
| The ability to be stretched | Extensibility |
| ability to recoil to their original resting length after they have been stretched | Elasticity |
| what two kinds of Myofibrils consist of protein fibers | actin myofilaments, myosin myofilaments |
| thin myofilaments | actin myofilaments |
| thick myofilaments | myosin myofilaments |
| another connective tissue located outside the epimysium | fascia |
| is needed for energy muscle contraction | ATP |
| is produced in the mitochondria | ATP |
| were the muscles remains contracted without relaxing | Tetany |
| the increase of number of motor units being activated is called | recruitment |
| A muscle fiber will not respond to simulus until that simulus reaches a level called | threshold |
| a contraction of an entire muscle in response to a stimulus that causes the action potential in one or more muscle fibers | muscle twitch |
| the beginning of a contraction is the | lag phase |
| the time of a contraction is the | contraction phase |
| the time during which the muscle relaxes is the | relaxation phase |