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Muscle attachments

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Origin   stationary, immovable attachment of muscle to bone  
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Insertion   movable attachment of muscle to bone  
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Abduction   limb away from median plane  
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Adduction   Limb toward median plane  
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Flexion   decreace joint angle, brings bones closer  
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Extension   increase joint angle, bones farther apart  
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Rotation   Circle  
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Circumduction   Cone  
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Skeletal Muscle   1. Striated or voluntary 2. Conprises the bulk of the body's muscles 3. attached to skeleton or associated connective tissue  
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Cells of Skeletal muscle   1. relatively large 2. multi-nucleited 3. long & cylindrical 4. Sarcolemma 5. Sarcoplasm 6. Also called fibers 7. Ranges from 10 microm- 6cm  
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Sarcomere   1. contractile unit 2. goes form one Z line to the next 3. Actin 4. Myosin  
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Actin   thin filamentboth light & dark  
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Myosin   thick proteinonly in the dark band  
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Endomysium   encloses muscle fibers delicate, areolar connective tissue sheath  
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Perimysium   a collagenic membrane sheaths muscle fibers forming a bundle of fibers called fascicle  
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Epimysium   sheaths the entire muscle large number of fascicles are bound togethervery coarse  
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Tendons   tough band of fibrous connective tissue that usually connects muscle to bone and is capable of withstanding tesion  
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Aponeurosis   1. sheetlike tendinous expansion, serving to connect a muscle with the parts it moves 2. attach muscles to each other or indirectly to bones  
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Motor unit   a neuron and all the muscle cells it stimulates  
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Synaptic cleft   a small fluid-filled gap that separates the neuron and muscle fiber membranes  
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Acetylcholine (ACh)   neurotransmitter chemicleallows change in the permeability of the sarcolemma  
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Vesicles   store various neurotransmitters  
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Agonists   prime moversresponsible for producing a particular movement  
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Antagonists   oppose or reverse a movement  
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Synergists   aid the action of agonists  
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Fixators   specialized synergists  
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Retus   Direction of fibers  
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Maximus   Size  
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Frontalis   Location  
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Biceps   number of origins  
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Sternocleidomastoid   location of origin and insertion  
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Trapezius   shape  
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Adductor   Action  
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