Functions
Characteristics
Steps of Contractions
Gross or fine movement
Potpourri
100
What are two muscles you can't live without?
The heart and the diaphragm
100
What is excitability/irritability?
What is the ability to receive and respond to a stimulus
100
It shortens
What does a muscle do during contraction?
100
What is a fine motor movement.
Using utensils to cut a steak.
100
What is recruit.
What do muscle fibers do when they need more fibers?
200
What are the 4 main functions?
Movement, maintain posture, stabilize joints, generate heat.
200
What is it called when a muscle can shorten?
What is contractibility?
200
Motor neuron releases ACh
What is the first step?
200
What is a gross motor movement
What is playing hopscotch?
200
What is an all or none contraction
When a muscle fiber is stimulated the whole muscle fiber contracts.
300
How do muscles metabolize?
What is glycolysis (anaerobic) or cell respiration (aerobic)
300
What is it called when a muscle is able to get longer
What is extensibility?
300
What is 8
How many steps are there in a muscle contraction?
300
What is a neuron and all the muscle fibers it innervates.
What is a motor unit?
300
It doesn't make energy to relax muscles. No ATP.
What is the cause of rigor mortis?
400
What is a motor unit?
Whole muscles are composed of neurons and all muscle fibers it inverts
400
What is it called when a muscle can stretch then go back to normal?
What is elasticity?
400
What is myosin and actin
_______ heads attach to _______
400
What is between the ages of 3-5
What point in life do children develop fine motor skills?
400
What is vascular?
What is it called when muscles have blood vessels?
500
What is it called when thin filaments are pulled across thick filaments so that actin and myosin overlap to a greater degree.
What is the sliding filament theory
500
What is innervated
What is it called when have nerves?
500
What is receives action potential (or message)
What is a t-tubule?
500
What is a fine motor movement
What is talking?
500
What is a flat tendon
What is aponeurosis?
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