Muscle Names
Name of the main muscle on the front of the thigh.
What is the Quadriceps?
The name for a muscle cell.
What is a Muscle Fiber?
The Energy Molecule needed in Muscle Contraction.
What is ATP?
What is the name for a large change in membrane potential that spreads rapidly over long distances within the cell.
What is a Action Potential?
The name for muscles most responsible for producing a certain movement.
What is a Prime Mover?
Name of the Prime Mover in Inhalation.
What is the Diaphragm?
The thin filament found within a sarcomere.
The Sarcomere is the ___________ unit of the muscle.
What is Contractile?
Name for Chemical Messengers inside of motor neurons.
What is Neurotransmitters?
Every muscle is considered to be _________, meaning it has its own blood vessels, nerves, and connective tissues.
What is an Organ?
What is the Pectoralis Major?
What is the name for a bundle of Muscle Cells?
What is a Fascicle?
Each sarcomere is separated by this disc.
What is the Z disc?
The chemical messenger that motor neurons used in muscle contraction.
What is Acetylcholine?
What is a First-Class Lever?
Prime Mover in Forearm Extension.
What is the Triceps Brachii?
The name of the connective tissue that surrounds each fascicle.
What is the Perimysium?
The ion that allows for a regulatory protein to grab onto Tropomyosin.
What is a Calcium Ion?
Voltage across the cell membrane usually between -50 to -90 mV.
What is Resting Membrane Potential?
The name for a muscle that helps the Prime Mover.
What is a Synergist?
The Prime Move of Dorsiflexion in the Foot.
What is the Tibialis Anterior?
The name for the specialized ER within a Muscle Cell.
What is the Sarcoplasmic Reticulum?
What is Troponin?
The name for the space between the Motor Neuron and Muscle Fiber.
What is the Synaptic Cleft?
Our Bones represent Levers while Our Joints represent ___________.