Muscle Structure
This is the term for a muscles striped appearance.
What is striated?
This is the name of the organelle where ATP production occurs.
What is the mitochondria?
This is the term for muscles deteriorating due to disuse.
What is muscle atrophy?
This is the term for a bundle of muscle tissue
What are fascicles?
This is the muscle around the eye.
What is orbicularis occuli?
This type of muscle is voluntary.
What is skeletal?
This is the molecule produced from the liver that helps regenerate ATP.
What is creatine phosphate?
This is the term for muscle enlargement sue to exercise.
What is muscle hypertrophy?
This is the term for a muscle fiber membrane.
What is a sarcolemma?
This is the strongest muscle for its size. Muscle of the jaw.
What is masseter?
This muscle type is involuntary and surrounds digestive organs.
What is smooth muscle?
This causes muscle soreness when it ferments when oxygen is used up and anaerobic cellular respiration begins.
What is lactic acid?
This is the term for a muscle no longer responding to a stimulus because of lack of ATP, Ach, etc.
What is muscle fatigue?
This is the term for a space between a neuron and muscle.
What is a synapse?
This is where cardiac tissue is found.
What is the heart?
This neurotransmitter stored in vesicles enters the synapse of a neuromuscular junction to cause muscle contraction.
What is acetylcholine?
This is the term for muscles stiffening post-mortem, about 72 hours. (after death)
What is rigor mortis?
This connective tissue attaches muscle to bone.
Muscle that attaches to the sternum, runs over the clavicle and attaches to the mastoid process on the back of the skull.
What is the sternocleidomastoid?
These 2 proteins make up muscle tissue.
What are actin and myosin?
This enzyme is the chemical found in rat poison.
What is strychnine?
This condition is caused by a bacteria that can cause muscles to stiffen and no longer work due to ach. not being able to break down.
What is tetanus?
This is a contractile unit of a muscle fiber.
What is a sarcomere?