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Ch.6 Muscles-Eastham

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Contractility   to shorten with force  
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Excitability   to respond to a stimulus  
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Extensibilty   to be stretched  
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Elasticity   to recoil to original length  
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Epimysium   surrounds the skeletal muscle  
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Fascia   connective tissue located outside the epimysium  
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Perimysium   surrounds the fascicle  
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Fibers   single muscle cells  
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Endomysium   surrounds the fiber  
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Myofibrils   a threadlike structure that extends from one end of the fiber to the other  
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Actin Myofilaments   thin; 2 strands of pearls twisted together  
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Myosin Myofilaments   thick; bundles of minute golf clubs  
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Sarcomeres   actin and myosin that form highly ordered units; the basic structural and functional unity of the muscle; Z-Line  
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I-Band   actin; white area  
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A-Band   myosin; dark shaded  
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H-Zone   myosin; contains m-line  
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M-Line   myosin; between a-bands in the h-zone  
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outside of cell membrane(resting)   positively charged  
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inside of cell membrane(resting)   negatively charged  
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Action Potential   reverse of charge in resting membrane potential  
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Motor Neurons   nerve cells that carry action potentials to skeletal muscle fibers  
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Neuromusclular Junction   each branch that connects to the muscle  
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Synapse   near center of the cell  
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Motor Unit   a single motor neuron and all the skeletal muscle fibers it innervates  
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Presynaptic Terminal   the enlarged nerve terminal  
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Synaptic Cleft   the space between the presynaptic terminal and the muscle cell  
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Postsynaptic Terminal   the muscle fiber  
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Acetylcholine   diffuses across the synaptic cleft and binds to the postsynaptic terminal Causing a change in the postsynaptic cell  
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Acetylcholinesterase   an enzyme that rapidly breaks down acetylcholine which is released into the synaptic cleft between the neuron and muscle cell  
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Sliding Filament Mechanism   the sliding of actin myofilaments slide past myosin myofilaments during contraction  
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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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Threshold   a muscle fiber will not respond to a stimulus until that stimulus reaches level called  
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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 Phase   the time of a contraction  
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