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Anatomy

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What are muscle cells made from?   Muscle Fibers  
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What is the muscle responsible for smiling?   Zygomaticus  
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What is a Sarcomere?   The basic structural and functioned unity of unity of the muscles  
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What is Contractility?   The ability of skeletal muscle to shorten with force.  
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What is excitability   The capacity of skeletal muscle to respond to a stimulus  
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What is Extensibility   The ability to be stretched  
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What is Elasticity   The ability to recoil to their original resting length after they have been stretched  
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What is the Fascia   It's another connective tissue located outside the epimysium  
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Define slow twitch   Muscles that fatigue slowly  
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Define fast twitch   Muscles that fatigue at a fast rate  
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What is tetany?   Where the muscle remains contracted without relaxing  
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What is it called when the muscle fibers contract maximally   All-or-none response  
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What is the increase in motor units being activated   Recruitment  
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What is origin?   It's is the most stationary end of the muscle  
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What is insertion?   It's the end of the muscle undergoing the greatest movement  
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What is belly?   It's the of the muscle between the origin and the insertion  
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Four major characteristics of skeletal muscles   Contractility, Excitability, Extensibility, Elasticity  
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Each skeletal muscle is surrounded by a connective tissue sheath called?   epimysium  
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A muscle is composed of?   Humerus visible bundles called muscle fasciculi  
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What is perimysium?   Loose connective tissue that surrounds muscle fasciculi  
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Fasciculi an composed of single muscle cells called?   fiburs  
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Each fiber is surrounded by a connective tissue sheath called the?   endomysium  
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The cytoplasm of each fiber is filled with?   myofibrils  
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Threadlike structure that extends from one end of the fiber to the other?   myofibrils  
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Myofibrils consist of 2 major kinds of protein fibers?   1. Actin myofilaments 2. myosin myofilaments  
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actin myofilaments?   thin myofilaments  
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myosin myofilaments?   thick myofilaments  
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Actin and myosin filaments form highly ordered units called   sacromeres  
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sarcomere?   basic structural and functional unity of the muscle  
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change difference across the membrane is called?   resting membrane potential  
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The brief reversal back of the charge is called?   actin potential  
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motor neurons?   nerve cells that carry action potentials to skeletal muscle fibors  
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Each branch that connects to the muscle form a?   neuromuscular junction or synapse  
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motor unit?   single motor neuron and all t he skeletal muscle fibers it innurrates  
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The space between the presynaptic terminal and the muscle cell is the?   synaptic cleft postsynaptic terminal  
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raises eyebrows   occipitofrontalis  
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The enlarged nerve terminal is the?   presynaptic terminal  
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closes eyelids and causes crows feet   orbicularis oculi  
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Puckers mouth?   orbiculi oris  
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flattens cheek? trumpeters mouth   buccinator  
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responsible for smiling   zygomaticus  
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responisble for sheering?   levator labii superioris  
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responsible for frowning?   depressor anguli oris  
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chewing?   mastication  
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Tongue and swallowing muscles?   intrinsic and extrinsic tongue muscles  
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changes shape of tongue?   instrinsic tongue muscles  
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Moves the tongue   extrinsic tongue muscles  
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neck muscles?   sternocleidomastoid lactural neck muscle torticollis platysma  
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Brachialis?   primary flexor of the forearm  
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tricep brachii? biceps brachii?   extends forearm, flexes and suppinates forearm  
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Internal intercostals?   contract during force expiration  
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External intercostals?   elevate ribs during inspiration  
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Thoracic muscles?   involved in breathing  
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