Types
Voluntary muscles
What are skeletal muscles?
Muscle group pairs
What are antagonistic muscles?
When nerves that control skeletal muscles are damaged, this occurs
What is paralysis?
Your body is supplied by oxygen by this action
What is breathing?
Long and thin, muscle cells are often called this
What are muscle fibers?
Found in the heart
What are cardiac muscles?
These muscles close the joint?
What are flexor muscles?
The energy for your body's muscle cells
What is glucose?
The muscle us made up almost entirely of this
What is protein?
All muscle cells are this, which is like a stripe
What are striations?
Found in many organs
What are smooth muscles?
What is atrophy?
The life giving substance that every cell in your body needs
The type of energy fueled by oxygen
What is aerobic?
Inside each long slender muscle cell are strands of protein called this
What are myofibrils?
The type of muscle we commonly eat in "meat"?
What are skeletal muscles?
The muscles in the upper arm that work together in a pair
What are biceps and triceps?
Where strength is sacrificed in muscles, this is gained
What is precision?
Builds up in muscles and causes pain
What is lactic acid?
The entire muscle is wrapped in this
What is connective tissue?
What are cardiac and smooth?
The strongest of the group of "strings" that attach muscle to bone
What is the Achilles tendon?
Where muscles attach to skin instead of to a joint or other bone
What is the face?
these get bigger and thicker through activity
What are myofibrils?
The entire body of muscles is connected by a thin covering of connective tissues called this
What is fascia?