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Muscles
Question | Answer |
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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 |