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Terms that indicates the interrelated actions of muscle
Muscle Actions
Physiological Characteristics of Muscle Tissue
Anatomy of a Skeletal Muscle Cell
Miscellaneous
100
What is the term used for the contraction of one muscle cell due to one muscle impulse?
What is Muscle twitch
100
What is an action that bends a part of the body posteriorly?
What is Extension
100
What is the term used for a muscle cell which can be stimulated by a nerve to contract?
What is Excitability
100
What is the connective tissue that surrounds several muscles of an area forming muscle compartments?
What is Fascia
100
What is the muscular disorder characterized by painful muscle spasms?
What is Cramp
200
What is a muscle that holds an origin stable for another muscle?
What is Fixator
200
What is the movement of a part of the body toward the midline?
What is Adduction
200
What is the term for stimulation from the nerve which moves quickly along the length of the muscle cell?
What is Conductivity
200
The fascicles are grouped together to form the muscle. The entire muscle is surrounded by a connective tissue called what?
What is Epimysium
200
What is the theory of muscle contraction involves thick myofilaments grabbing thin myofilaments and pulling them toward the center of the sarcomere?
What is Sliding filament theory
300
What are muscles that have the same action?
What is Synergists
300
What is the position in which the soles of the feet are together, facing each other?
What is Inversion
300
What is the term for a muscle cell which can shorten with force because muscles can only pull, they cannot push?
What is Contractility
300
What is the structure formed at the ends of the Z-lines?
What is Sarcomere
300
What type of muscle tissue is voluntary and under conscious control?
What is Skeletal muscle is under voluntary control while smooth muscle and cardiac muscle are involuntary.
400
What is the main muscle of the synergists that performs the action?
What is Prime mover
400
What is the position in which the soles of the feet point away from each other?
What is Eversion
400
What is the term for a muscle cell which can be stretched?
What is Extensibility
400
What is the name of the smooth endoplasmic reticulum of the cell?
What is Sarcoplasmic reticumum
400
What type of muscle tissue has the ability to self-stimulate (meaning it requires no nerve stimulus for contraction)?
What is Cardiac muscle cells require no nerve stimulus for contraction
500
What is a muscle that has an opposing action?
What is Antagonist
500
What is the act of making a circle with part of the body?
What is Circumduction
500
If a muscle cell is stretched, it will return to its original shape. What is this called?
What is Elasticity
500
Thick myofilaments are made of several hundred protein molecules called?
What is Myosins
500
What is the group of genetic disorders that result in progressive weakening, degeneration, and replacement of muscle tissue with fibrous scar tissue?
What is Muscular dystrophy