Types of Muscle
Characteristics of Muscles
Muscular Disorders
Tissue Wrappings of muscle
Miscellaneous
100
Type of muscle that is branched and striated
What is cardiac muscle?
100
The ability of the muscle to shorten and generate force
What is contractility?
100
Wasting away of muscle due to lack of use.
What is atrophy?
100
Bundle of muscle fibers
What is a fascicle?
100
Type of chemical that accumulates in the body and causes fatigue.
What is lactic acid?
200
Type of muscle that is voluntary
What is skeletal muscle?
200
Ability to be stretched without damaging tissue.
What is extensibility?
200
An increase in the size of muscle cells.
What is hypertrophy?
200
Layer of connective tissue that surrounds single muscle fibers.
What is endomysium?
200
Long distance runners have more of these type of muscle fibers.
What are slow twitch muscle fibers?
300
Type of muscle that only has one nucleus
What is smooth muscle?
300
Ability of the muscle to return to its original shape.
What is elasticity?
300
Tear in the muscle from excessive use?
What is muscle strain?
300
Tissue surrounding fascicles.
What is perimysium?
300
Short distance sprinters have more of these type of muscle fibers.
What are slow twitch muscle fibers?
400
Type of muscle that has rhythmic, automatic contractions without fatigue
What is cardiac muscle?
400
Ability to respond to chemicals released from neurons.
What is excitability?
400
Involves tearing of the ligaments from stretching your muscle past its normal range of motion.
What is a muscle sprain?
400
Helps contract voluntary muscles.
What is epimysium?
400
The area between 2 Z discs.
What is the sarcomere?
500
Peristalsis occurs in this type of muscle
What is smooth muscle?
500
Ability of the muscle to spread electrical signals over the membrane.
What is conductivity?
500
Infectious disease that causes continuous spasms of voluntary muscles.
What is tetanus?
500
The epimysium, perimysium, and endomysium surround which type of muscle?
What is skeletal muscle?
500
Type of muscle filament that does not move during contractions?
What is myosin?
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