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Muscles

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Tendon A flexible strong cord that connects muscle to bone.
Smooth Muscle Muscle with no striation forms tubes.
Skeletal Muscle Muscles connected to your skeleton, have striations.
Cardiac Muscle Muscles in your heart have striations.
Sarcomere Micro-striations, basic unit of muscle fiber.
Sarcoplasmic reticulum This is the stuff that stores calcium, releases it and restores it when they are done after contractions.
Calcium Ions A calcium ions that has lost 2 electrons. this is what helps us contract our muscles.
Actin Filaments Outside of sarcomere, thin flexible protein fibers.
Myosin Filaments Protein structures in sarcomere that interact with the actin to contract muscles.
Troponin When it is curled inside the actin.
Tropmyosin When it is straight inside the actin.
Adenosine Triphosphate ATP, or energy provided for the muscle contraction.
Endomysium The inner layer or connective tissue that encloses each muscle fiber.
Perimysium The middle inner layer that is around the muscle fibers.
Myofibril Rod like organelle that is made up of many sarcomeres.
Fascicle A bundle of muscle fibers what makes up the skeletal muscle.
Epimysium The outermost layer of tissue on the outside of the muscle that surrounds the whole muscle.
Muscle Fiber/Cell Long cylindrical cell inside the muscle that contracts.
Muscle Fatigue This is when the muscle can not contract anymore caused by lack of energy.
Electromyogram A test that measures the electrical activity of muscles and nerves.
Tetany A condition where involuntary muscles contract, spas or tremor.
Intercalated discs Where 2 cardiac muscles meets or come together.
Fiberous joints Non-movable example skull
Cartilagenous joints slightly movable example vertebrae, ribs, pelvis.
Synovial joints freely movable
Pivot Rotate around each other like your forearm
Plane (gliding) Slide around some like your clavicle
Saddle Sits on top of the non moving bone to move like thumb
Hinge Moves one way back and fourth like knees and elbows uniaxial
Condyloid Non moving bone sits on the top and the bottom moves like wrist
Ball and Socket Can move all the ways is in your hip and shoulder multiaxial
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