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Muscles

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Contractility   The ability of skeletal muscle to shorten with force  
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Excitability   The capacity of skeletal muscle to respond to a stimulus  
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Extensibility   The ability to be stretched  
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Elasticity   The ability to recoil to their original resting length after they have been stretched  
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Epimysium   Each skeletal muscle is surrounded by a connective tissue sheath  
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Fascia   Another connective tissue located outside the epimysium. It surrounds and separates muscles  
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Perimysium   Loose connective tissue that surrounds the fasciculi  
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Myofibrils   A threadlike structure that extends from one end of the fiber to the other  
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Fasciculi   Composed of numerous visible bundles  
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Actin myofilaments   Thin myofilaments. They resemble 2 minute strands of pearls twisted together  
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Myosin myofilaments   Thick myofilaments. They resemble bundles of minute golf clubs  
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Sarcomeres   Actin and myosin myofilaments form highly ordered units called  
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Actin & myosin myofilaments   2 major kinds of protein fiber  
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Sarcomere   Basic structural and functional unity of the muscle  
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one Z-line disc to another   Each sarcomere extends from  
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A banded appearance   Arrangement of actin and myosin give  
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Actin   Each Z-line is an attachment for  
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Myosin   The A band extends the length of the  
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A band   Darker, central region in each sarcomere  
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H-Zone   Light area in the center. Consists of only myosin  
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M line   Myosin myofilaments are anchored in the center of the sarcomere at a dark staining band called  
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Positively charged   The outside of most cell membranes is  
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negatively charged   inside of the cell membranes  
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Resting membrane potential   The charge difference across the membrane is called  
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action potential   The brief reversal back of the charge  
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Motor neurons   nerve cells that carry action potentials to skeletal muscle fibers  
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Axons   enters the muscles and branch  
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neuromuscular junction   Each branch that connects to the muscle forms  
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synapse   Another word for neuromuscular junction  
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Motor unit   A single motor neuron and all the skeletal muscle fibers it innervates are called  
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neuromuscular junction   formed by an enlarged nerve terminal resting in an indentation of the muscle cell membrane  
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presynaptic terminal   enlarged nerve terminal  
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synaptic cleft   the space between the presynaptic terminal and the muscle cell is the  
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postsynaptic terminal   muscle fiber is the  
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synaptic vesicles   secrete a neurotransmitter. Each presynaptic terminal contains one  
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Acetylcholine   neurotransmitter  
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Sarcolemma   The acetylcholine diffuses across the synaptic cleft and binds to receptor molecules in the muscle cell membrane  
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Acetylcholinesterase   the acetylcholine released into the synaptic cleft between the neuron and the muscle cell is rapidly broke down by an enzyme  
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sliding filament mechanism   the sliding of actin myofilaments past myosin myofilaments during contraction  
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A Bands   do not change in length  
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H and I Bands   shorten  
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Muscle twitch   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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threshold   a muscle fiber will not respond to stimulus until that stimulus reaches a level called  
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all-or-none   phenomenon  
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lag phase   the time between application of a stimulus to a motor neuron and the beginning of a contraction  
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contraction phrase   the time of contraction  
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relaxation phase   time during which the muscle relaxes  
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tetany   where the muscles remains contracted without relaxing  
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recruitment   the increase in number of motor units being activated  
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Adenosine triphosphate   ATP  
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ATP   needed for energy for muscle contraction  
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ATP   produced in the mitochondria  
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ATP   short-lived and unstable. It degenerates to the more stable  
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ADP   adenosine diphosphate  
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ADP   plus phosphate  
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creatine phosphate   Can't stockpile ATP but can store another high-energy molecule  
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Anaerobic respiration   without oxygen  
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aerobic respiration   with oxygen (more efficient)  
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oxygen debt   amount of oxygen needed in chemical reactions to covert lactic acid to glucose and to replenish the depleted stores of creatine phosphate stores in muscle cells  
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Muscle fatigue   occurs after exercising our muscles strenuously for a long time  
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Flexion   movement, generally in the sagittal plane, that decreases the angle of the joint and brings two bones close together  
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extension   opposite of flexion, so it is a movement that increase the angle, or the distance, between two bones or parts of the body  
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rotation   movement of a bone around its longitudinal axis  
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abduction   moving a limb away from the midline, or median plane, of the body  
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adduction   opposite of abduction, so it is the movement of a limb toward the body midline  
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circumduction   combination of flexion, extension, abduction, and adduction commonly seen in ball-and-socket joints such as the shoulder  
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Frontalis   raises eyebrows  
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orbicularis oculi   blinks and closes eyes  
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orbicularis oris   closes and protrudes lips  
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temporalis   closes jaw  
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zygomaticus   raises corner of mouth  
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masseter   closes jaw  
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buccinators   compresses cheek as in whistling and sucking; holds food between teeth during chewing  
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sternocleidomastoid   flexes neck; rotates head  
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platysma   pulls corners of mouth inferiorly  
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pectoralis major   adducts and flexes humerus  
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rectus abdominis   flexes vertebral column  
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biceps brachii   flexes elbow and supinates forearm  
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triceps brachii   extends elbow  
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deltoid   abducts humerus  
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trapezius   extends neck and adducts scapula  
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latissimus dorsi   extends and adducts humerus  
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erector spinae   extends back  
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gluteus maximus   extends hip  
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soleus   plantar flexes foot  
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