Tissues
Connects muscle to bone.
What is a tendon?
Attachment to the immovable bone.
What is the origin?
Each muscle cell is called this.
What is a muscle fiber?
Ability to receive and respond to a stimulus.
What is irritability?
The term for muscle that are not used regularly.
What is muscle atrophy?
Multinucleated, striated, and voluntary.
What is skeletal muscle?
The attention to the moveable bone.
What is the insertion?
The cell membrane of a muscle cell.
What is a sarcolemma?
The ability to shorten.
What is contractility?
This type of exercise increases muscle size and strength.
What is resistance training?
Found in blood vessels, esophagus, stomach, and intestines.
What is smooth muscle?
The muscle that produces a particular movement.
What is the agonist?
Multiple muscle fibers are called this.
The location where the neuron meets the muscle cell.
Where is the neuromuscular junction?
Nerve supply damage leads to the muscle no longer being stimulated.
What is paralysis?
What is cardiac?
This produces the opposite effect on the same bones.
What is an antagonist?
Threadlike proteins in myofibril, two types (thick and thin).
What are actin and myosin?
4 Functions of the Muscle System
What is producing movement, maintaining posture, generating heat, and moving substances?
Group of genetic diseases in which muscle fibers are unusually susceptible to damage.
What is muscular dystrophy?
The highest-grossing animated film of all time.
What is the Lion King?
Muscles that help stabilize a movement.
What is a synergist?
The contractile unit of a muscle.
What is a sarcomere?
The name of theory for muscle contraction.
What is the sliding filament theory?
With this exercise muscle becomes stronger, more flexible, and has greater resistance to fatigue.
What is aerobic exercise?