Muscle Types
This muscle type is involuntary and found in your digestive system.
What is Smooth Muscle?
The tough outer wrapping of a muscle bundle.
What is the Sheath?
Muscles can only do this; they can never push.
What is Pull?
The organ that sends the intial message to move a muscle.
What is the Brain?
This muscle type is voluntary and allows you to lift objects.
What is Skeletal Muscle?
These "powerhouses" provide the energy for contraction.
What are Mitochondria?
These connectors join muscle to bone.
What are Tendons?
The term for muscle movements we don't have to think about.
What is Involuntary?
This muscle type never rests and is only found in one organ.
What is Cardiac Muscle?
These are the microscopic units containing actin and myosin.
What are Myofibrils or Filaments?
This process involves actin and myosin sliding past each other.
What is Contraction?
A skeletal muscle movement that happens automatically without conscious thought.
What is a Reflex?