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Brandi Gibson

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Muscle Cells   Muscle fibers  
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The ability to to be stretched   Extensibility  
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What surrounds each skeletal muscle?   epimysium  
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What is fascia?   Another connective tissue located outside the epimysium.  
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What are Motor neurons?   nerve cells that carry action potentials to skeletal muscle fibers.  
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Each branch that connects to the muscle forms what?   Neuromusclular junction  
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What does each preynaptic terminal contain?   synaptic vesicles  
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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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A muscle fiber will not respond to stimulus until that stimulus reaches a level called?   Threshold  
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Contractility   the ability of skeletal muscles to shorten with force  
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What occurs in the absence of oxygen?   Anaerobic Respiration  
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What kind of Muscle fibers fatigue quickly?   Fast twitch fibers  
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Slow Twitch fibers are?   Muscle fibers that are resistant to fatigue  
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What are muscles that work against each other called?   Antagonists  
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Synergists are what?   Muscles that work together  
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Two types of tongue muscles   Intringic and Extrinsic  
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What does the levator superioris enable us to do?   Sneer  
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Occipitofrontals allow us to what?   Rise the eyebrows  
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Buccinator does what?   Flattens the cheeks  
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Mastication does what?   Allows us to chew  
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Zygomaticus lets us?   Smile  
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the whole muscle is surrounded by 2 layers of tissue called what?   Fascia and epimysium  
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What is the condition in which the muscle remains contracted without relaxing is called?   Tetany  
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What is a muscle twitch?   A contraction of an entire muscle in response to stimulus  
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Aerobic respiration occurs when?   In the presence of oxygen  
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Which tongue muscle changes the shape of the tongue?   Intrinsic  
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What muscle closes the eyelid?   Orbiculoris oculi  
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Triceps brachii   extends the forearm  
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Where is the latissimus dorsi?   the back muscles  
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What does the rotator cuff do?   Attaches the humerus to the scapula  
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Flexor carpi   flexes wrist  
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Extensor carpi   extends wrist  
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Rentinaculum (bracelet)   covers flexors and extensors and holds them in place  
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How many hand muscles are there between the metacarpals?   19  
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Pectoralis major   chest muscle, adducts and flexes the arm  
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Linea alba   extends from the sternum to the navel to the pubis  
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What does the Gluteus maximus control?   Buttocks/It rotates the thigh  
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What is a common injection site?   The Gluteus meduis  
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Sternocleioidmastoid?   Prime mover lateral neck muscle-rotates and abductes the head  
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External Intercostals   elevates ribs during inspiration  
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Internal Intercostals   Contracts during forced expiration  
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Diaphram   Is used during quiet breathing  
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Orbicularis oris   puckers the lips  
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Depresser anguli oris   frowning  
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What is the beginning of a contraction called?   Lag phase  
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The increase in number of motor units being activated is called?   Recruitment  
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A single motor neuron and all the skeletal muscle fibers it innervates are called?   Motor unit  
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Excitability   the capacity of skeletal muscle to respond to a stimulus  
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Elasticity   ability to recoil to their original resting length after they have been stretched  
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Each muscle fiber is a single cylindrical cell containing several what?   Nuclei  
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myofibrils?   threadlike structure that extends from one end of the fiber to the other  
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Why does muscles produce heat?   its essential for maintenance of normal body temperature  
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Myofibrils consists of what 2 kinds of proteins?   actin myofilameants and myosin myofilaments  
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Actin and myosin myofilaments form highly ordered units called what?   sarcomeres  
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Flexor digitorum   flexes fingers  
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extensor digitorum   extends fingers  
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How many muscles are in the foot?   20 and they are called intransit  
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