Muscle Physiology
When myosin and actin attach, this is formed.
What is a cross-bridge?
The channels that are open during depolarization.
What are sodium?
Ligaments, muscles, and bone shape provide support to these.
What are synovial joints?
These are bone-destroying cells.
What are osteoclasts?
Another word for sensory.
The only muscle type that can fully regenerate.
What is smooth?
The structure that allows communication between the left and right sides of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum?
The smooth tissue found at the ends of bones.
What is articular cartilage?
Where long bones grow in children and adolescents.
What is the epiphyseal plate?
Where a majority of the body's energy is made during aerobic respiration.
What are the mitochondria?
The structure that transmits a nerve impulse deep into the muscle fiber.
What is a T-tubule?
The number and direction of sodium ions moved by the sodium-potassium pump.
What is 3-Out?
The muscle group that extends the knee.
What are the quadriceps?
The shaft of bone.
What is the diaphysis?
-70 mV.
What is resting membrane potential?
The neurotransmitter used by muscles that is primarily excitatory.
What is acetylcholine?
The cells in the brain which make and circulate cerebrospinal fluid.
What are ependymal cells?
The structures that separate the bones of the skull.
What are sutures?
The class of lever with the effort in the middle.
What is third class?
The primary inhibitory neurotransmitter of the brain.
What is GABA?
The characteristic that describes the ability of a muscle to stretch.
What is extensibility?
The middle layer of the meninges.
What is the arachnoid layer?
The motion that increases the angle between bones.
What is extension?
The principle that describes how a bone grows in width based on the stresses placed upon it.
What is Wolff's Law?
The time when a nerve cannot fire yet.
What is the refractory period?