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1. isotonic contractions   same tone muscles  
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2. isometric contractions   same length muscles  
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3. muscle fatigue   unable to contract  
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4. oxygen debt   lack of oxygen  
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5. muscle tone   continuous contractions  
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6. flexion   hinge joints  
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7. extension   increases distance between two bones  
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8. rotation   ball-and-socket joints  
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9. abduction   away from the midline  
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10. adduction   toward the midline  
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11. circumduction   combination of flexion, extension, abduction, and adduction  
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12. aerobic   more resistance to fatigue  
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13. anerobic   less resistance to fatigue. stronger  
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14. endomysium   tissue sheath around a muscle fiber  
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15. perimysium   sheath outside endomysium  
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16. fascicle   bundle of muscle fibers  
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17. striated muscle   muscles with stripes on them  
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18. smooth muscle   muscles that are smooth  
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19. cardiac muscle   only found in heart  
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20. tendons   attach muscle too bone  
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21. what is contractility?   the ability of skeletal muscle to shorten with force  
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22. what is excitability?   the capacity of skeletal muscle to respond to a stimulous  
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23. what is the epimysium?   surrounds the skeletal muscle  
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24. what is the perimysium ?   a coarse fibrous membrane  
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25.what is a striated muscle?   skeletal muscle that is striped  
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26.what are muscle fibers?   elongated muscle cells  
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27.what is a smooth muscle ?   has no striations and is involuntary, which means that you cannot continuously control it.  
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28.what is the A band ?   extends the length of the myosin. it is the darker central region in each sarcomere.  
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29.what is the H zone?   the light area in the center of each sarcomere witch consists of only myosin.  
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30.what is the resting membrane potential?   the charge difference across the membrane  
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31.what is action potential?   when a muscle cell is stimulated the membrane characteristics reverse the charge back.  
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32.what are motor neurons?   are nerve cells the carry action potentials to skeletal muscle fibers  
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33.what is a synapse?   near the center of the cell  
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34.what is a presynaptic terminal?   the enlarged nerve terminal  
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35.what is the synaptic cleft?   the space between the presynaptic terminal and the muscle cell  
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36.what is a acetylcholine?   a neurotransmitter the diffuses across the synaptic cleft and binds to thepostsynaptic terminal  
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37.what is a muscle twitch?   a contraction of an entire muscle in response to a stimulus that causes the action potential in one or more muscle fibers  
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38.what is a lag phase?   the time between application of a stimulus to a motor neuron and the beginning of the contraction  
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what is the contraction phase?   the time of the contraction  
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