Muscular System
What covers the entire skeletal muscle?
Epimysium.
What are blood vessels that carry blood toward the heart called?
Veins
What is the central nervous system made up of?
Brain, spinal cord
What are the three basic muscle types?
Skeletal, cardiac, smooth
Where does blood transported by pulmonary veins return to?
Right atrium
What are the two types of neurons?
Sensory, motor
What is the definition of contractility?
Ability to shorten when an adequate stimulus is received.
What is stroke volume?
Volume of blood pumped by each ventricle in one contraction
What are the two compositions of the nervous sytsem?
Peripheral & central nervous system
In muscle contraction, ____ allows the pulling of actin inward.
released energy
What is the equation for cardiac output?
(heart rate [HR]) x (stroke volume [SV])
31 pairs
What do neutralizers do?
Neutralizes the effect of a movement caused by another muscle.
What law states that the more that the cardiac muscle is stretched, the stronger the contraction?
Starling's law
What are the 3 basic functions of the nervous system?
Sensory functions, integrative functions, motor functions