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Anatomy/Physiology

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show The ability of skeletal muscle to shorten with force.  
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show The capacity of skeletal muscle to respond to a stimulus.  
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what is extensibility?   show
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show The ability to recoil to their original resting length after they have been stretched.  
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What is the epimysium?   show
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show Loose coonective tissue that surrounds visible muscle fibers.  
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what is the fascia?   show
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What are fibers?   show
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show A threadlike structure that extends from one end of the fiber to the other end of the fiber.  
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show Thin myofilament s that resemble 2 minute strands of pearls twisted together.  
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show Thick myofilaments that resemble bundles of minute golf clubs.  
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What are sacromeres?   show
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What is resting membrane potential?   show
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show The brief reversal back of the charge.  
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What are motor neurons?   show
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show Axons enter the muscles and branch. Each branch that connects to the muscle.  
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What is a motor unit?   show
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What is a presynaptic terminal?   show
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show The space between the presynaptic terminal and the muscle cell.  
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What is the postsynaptic terminal?   show
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show In the presynaptic terminal.  
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show A neurotransmitter that is secreted by synaptic vessels.  
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show When the acetylcholine is released into the synaptic cleft between the neuron and muscle cell is broken down by enzymes.  
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show The sliding of actin myofilaments past myosin myofilaments during contraction.  
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show A contraction of an entire muscle in respone to a stimulus that causes the action potential in one or more muscle fibers,  
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What is the treshold?   show
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What is the all or none response?   show
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What is the lag phase?   show
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show The time of contraction.  
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What is the relaxation phase?   show
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show Where the muscle remains contracted without relaxing.  
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show The increase in the number of motor units being activated.  
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What is creatine phosphate?   show
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What is anaerobic respiration?   show
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What is aerobic respiration?   show
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show The amount of oxygen needed in chemical reactions to convert lactic acid to glucose and to replinish the depleted stores of creatine phosphate stores in muscle cells.  
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show Results when ATP is used during muscle contraction faster than it can be produced in the muscle cells.  
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What is the meaning of isometric?   show
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show The amount of tension produced by the muscle is constant during contraction, but the length if the muscle changes.  
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What is muscle tone?   show
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What are fast-twitch fibers?   show
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What are slow-twitch fibers?   show
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What is the origin?   show
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What is insertion?   show
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What is the belly?   show
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show Muscles that work together to accomplish specific movements.  
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What are antagonists?   show
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show The one muscle that plays a major role among a group of synergists.  
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show Heat.  
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show It surrounds and seperates muscles.  
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What is a single cylindrical cell containing several nuclei?   show
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What is the cytoplasm of each fiber filled with?   show
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Myofibrils consist of how mmany kinds of major proteins?   show
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show The myofibril.  
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show Muscle.  
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Each sacromere extens from one Z line to what other line?   show
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Each Z line is an attachment site for what?   show
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show Banded.  
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show An I band.  
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show The myosin.  
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What is darker than the central region in each sacromere?   show
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show The H zone.  
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The myosin myofilaments are anchored in the center of the sacromere at a dark staining band called what?   show
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The outside of most cell membranes is positively charged compared to the outside of the cell membrane which has what kind of a charge?   show
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show The muscle cell.  
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show The muscles and branch.  
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Many motor units form what?   show
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A neuromuscular junction if formed by what?   show
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show Acetylcholine.  
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When an action potential reaches the nerve terminal, what happens?   show
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What diffuses across the synaptic cleft and binds to receptor molecules in the muscle membrane?   show
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What is the muscle cell membrane called?   show
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show Sodium ions into the muscle fiber.  
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What causes the muscle to contract?   show
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show Acetycholinesterase.  
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show When the actin and myofilaments slide past one another causing the sacromeres to shorten.  
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show Muscle.  
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In muscle contraction, when the H and I bands shorten, which band does not change in length?   show
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If successive stimuli is given you get excessive what that occurs so frequently because the muscle doesn't have time to fully relax?   show
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What is needed for energy for muscle contraction?   show
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What does ATP stand for?   show
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Where is ATP produced?   show
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show ATP  
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show Adenosine Diphosphate.  
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show Muscles.  
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What high-energy molecule cannot be stockpiled while at rest?   show
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During periods of inactivity as excess ATP is produced in the muscle cell, the energy contained in ATP is used to synthesize what?   show
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During perios of activity, the energy stored in creatine phosphate can be accessed quickly and used to produce ATP, which can then be used in what?   show
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show Respiration Rate.  
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What provides the oxygen to payback the oxygen debt?   show
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How many types of muscle contractions are there?   show
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What are the two types of muscle contracitons called?   show
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show It's origin and insertion.  
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At points of attachment muscle is connected to the bone by what?   show
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show Some muscles.  
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Most what have names that are descriptive?   show
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What are muscles named according to?   show
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show Four.  
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What are the four major functional characteristics to skeletal muscle?   show
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Where is the I band located?   show
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show One Z line to the left, and one to the right, while there is one I band accompanying each on the introverted side of each Z line, with an M line in btween the pair of A bands.  
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Where is the H zone located?   show
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