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anatomy

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Definition
Contractility   the ability of a skeletal muscle to shorten with force  
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Excitability   the capacity of a skeletal muscle to respond to a stimulus  
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Extensesibility   the ability to be streched  
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Elasticity   the ability to recoil to their original resting length after they have been streched  
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epimysium   each skeletal muscle is surrounded by a connective tissue seath called?  
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Fascia   Another connrctive tissue located outside of the epimysium  
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Muscle Fasciculi (Fascicle)   a muscle id composed of nemerous visible bundles called?  
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Perumysium   Fasciculi (Fascicle) are surrounded by loose connective tissue called/  
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Fibers   the fasciculi are composed of single muscles cells called?  
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Endomysium   Each fiber is surrounded by a connective tissue seath called?  
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Myofibrils   The cytoplasm of each fiber is filled with?  
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Myofibrils   A thread like structure that extends from one end of the fiber to the other?  
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Actin and Myosin Myofilaments   Myofibrils consist of 2 major kinds of protine fibers:  
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Actin   Resembles 2 minute strands of pearls twisted together  
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Myosin   Resembles bundles of minute golf clubs  
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Sacromeres   Actin adn myosin myofilaments from highly ordered units called?  
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Sacromers   the basic structural and functional unit of the muscles  
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Resting membranes potential   The charge difference across the membrane is called?  
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Action Pontential   When a muscle cell is stimulated the membrane characteristics change briefly, the brief reversal back of the charge is called?  
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motor neurons   Nerve cells that carry action potentials to the skeletal muscles fibers  
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A neuromuscular junction or synapse   Axons enter the muscles and branch, each branch that connects to the muscle forms?  
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A Motor Unit   A single motor neuron and al the skeletal muscle fibers in innervates are called  
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Presynaptic terminal   the enlarged nerve terminal  
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Synaptic Cleft   Space between the presynaptic terminal and the muscle cell:  
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Synaptic vesicles   Each presynaptic terminal contains  
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Acetylcholine   Synaptic vesicles secret a neurotransmitter called?  
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Acetylcholinesterase   The acetylcholine release into the synaptic cleft between the neuron and muscle cell is rapidly broken down by an enzymes  
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Muscke Contraction   Occurs as action and myosin myofilaments slide past one another causing the sarcomers to shorten :  
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Sliding Filament Mechanism   The sliding of action myofilaments past myosin myofilments during contraction is called  
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Muscle Twitch   Contraction of an entire muscle in responce to a stimulus that causes the action potential in one or more muscles fibers:  
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Threshold   A muscle fiber will not respond to a stimulus unit that stimulus reaches a level called?  
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The lag phase   The time between application of a stimulus to a motor neuron and the beginning of a contaction is?  
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Contraction Phase   Time of contraction  
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Muscle Fatigue   Result when ATP is used during muscle contraction faster than it can be produced in the muscle cell  
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Isometic (Equal Distance)   The length of the muscle does nto change, but the amount of tension increses during the contraction process  
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Isometric (Equal Tension)   The amount of tension produced by the muscle id constant during contraction, but the length of the muscle changes :  
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muscle tension   Constant tension produced by muscles of the body for long periods of time  
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Fast-Twitch Fibers (white meat of a chicken brest)   Contract quickly and fatigue quickly  
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Slow-Twitch Fibers (Dark meat of a ducks brest or leg of chicken)   Contract more slowly and are more resistant to fatigue  
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origin   the most stationary end of the muscle  
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insertion   the end of the muscle undergoing the greatest movement  
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Belly   The portion of the muscle between the orgin and the insertion  
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Synergists   Muscles that work together to accomplish specific movements are called?  
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Antagonists   Muscles that work in opposition to one another are called?  
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The Prime Mover   Among a group of synergists, if one muscle plays the major role in accomplishing the desired movement, it is:  
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Occipitofrontales   Rasies eyebrows  
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Orbicularis Oculi   Closes the eyelid  
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Orbiccularis Oris   Puckers the lips  
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Buccinator   Flattens the cheeks  
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Orbicularis oris, buccanator   the two kissing muscles  
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Zygomaticus   Smiling  
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Levator Labii Superioris   Sneering  
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Depressor Anguli Oris   Frowning  
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Mastication   Chewing  
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Masseter, Temporalis, 2 Pterygoids   4 Pairs of Chewing muscles  
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Extrinsic tougue muscles   moves the tongue  
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Intrinsic tongue muscles   changes shape of the tongue  
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Stero Cleido Mastoid   Rotates and Abducts neck  
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Errector Spinae   Found in each side of the back, respondable for errect posture  
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External intercostals   Contract During Inspiration  
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Internal intercostals   Contract during forced expirations  
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Diaphram   Dome shaped muscle, responcible for quiet breathing  
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Rectus abdominis   Abs  
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Linea Alba   White line of connective tissue that extends from the sternum of the pelvis  
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Tendinous Inscription   Cross the Rextus Abdominis in 3 places and from a segmented look in abs  
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Truck MusclesMuscles that move the verterbral column   Trunk muscles  
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Thorasic Muscles   muscles that move the trunk  
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Abdominal wall muscles   muscles of the anterior abdominal wall flex and rotate the verebral column, compress the abdominal cavity, and hold in the abdominal viscera  
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trapezius   Pulls scapula anteriorly  
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adducts and flexes the arm   Pectoralis major  
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latissimus doris   Medially rotaes adducts, and powerfully extends the arm. "swimmers muscles"  
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frontails   moves the eyebrows  
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Orbicularis oculi   located around the eye (muscle)  
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Masseter   chewing muscles  
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Gluteus maximus   buttocks  
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hamstring   posterior thigh muscles  
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