Structure
Functions
Contractions
Disorders
MISC
100
The muscle's attachment to this more stationary bone is.
What is origin?
100
This occurs when muscule cells are stimulated repeatedly without adequate periods of rest.
What is fatigue?
100
Another name for an increase in muscle size.
What is hypertrophy?
100
Autoimmune disorder characterized by weakness and muscle fatique.
What is Myasthenia Gravis?
100
The minimal level of stimulation required to cause a fiber to contract.
What is threshold stimulas?
200
These anchor muscles firmly to bones.
What are tendons?
200
The continued increased metabolism that must occur in a cell to remove excess latic acid that accumlates during prolonged exercise.
What is oxygen debt?
200
Muscle produces movement at a joint and the muscle changes length.
What is Isotonic contraction?
200
A viral infection of the nerves that control skeletal muscle movement.
What is poliomyelitis?
200
Name the 3 types of muscle tissue?
What are skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle?
300
The basic functional unit of skeletal muscle
What is a sacromere?
300
The 3 primary functions of the muscular skeletal system.
What iare movement, posture, and heat production?
300
Pushing against a wall.
What is isometric exercise?
300
An injury that occurs in the area of a joint and ligament is damaged.
What is a sprain?
300
This muscle is involuntary and is found around viseral structures.
What is smooth muscle?
400
Sacromeres are seperated by these dark bands.
What are Z lines?
400
These lie between tendons and the bones beneath them.
What is bursae?
400
30 stimuli per second evoke this type of contraction.
What is tetanic contraction?
400
The age that muscular dystrophy first becames apparent.
What is 2-3?
400
The point of contact between the nerve ending and the muscle fiber.
What is a neuromuscular junction?
500
These proteins go with thick myofilaments and thin myofilaments.
What are myosin and actin?
500
This produces energy required to maintain body temperature.
What is ATP?
500
During this contraction the muscle lengthens. Give an example of this type of contraction.
What is Isotonic contraction and walking, running, lifting, twisting?
500
Severe trauma to a skeletal muscle.
What is a crush injury?
500
This stimulates muscles so that can can contract and pull on a bone to move it.
What is motor unit?
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