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| Neurotransmitter between neurons in the brain and spinal cord or between a neuron and a voluntary skeletal muscle. |
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| Flexion at elbow and shoulder; supination. |
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| Muscles that control the beating of the heart. |
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| The ability of muscle tissue to contract when its thick (myosin) and thin (actin) filaments slide past each other. |
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| Abduction at shoulder, flexion and medial rotation, extension and lateral rotation. |
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| Muscular sheet that divides the thoracic cavity from the abdominal cavity. Most important ventilation muscle. Helps control breathing. |
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| The ability of tissue to regain its original shape and size after being stretched, squeezed, or otherwise deformed. |
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| The ability of a muscle fiber to respond rapidly to a stimulating agent. |
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| The extent to which a muscle can be stretched without causing it to tear or break. |
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| Compresses abdomen, depresses ribs, flexes or bends spine. |
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| Flexion at knee, extension and lateral rotation of hip, extension and medial rotation at hip. |
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| Extension (plantar flexion) at ankle, inversion of foot, and flexion at knee. |
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| Extension and lateral rotation at hip. |
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| Abduction and medial rotation at hip. |
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| Elevate and depress ribs. |
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| A muscle that contracts without conscious control and found in walls of internal organs |
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| Extension, adduction, and medial rotation at shoulder. |
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| Elevates mandible and closes jaws. |
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| Is made up of a motor neuron and the skeletal muscle fibers innervated by that axon. |
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| The decline in ability of a muscle to generate force. |
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| The normal state of balanced tension in the tissues of the body |
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| Connects the nervous system to the muscular system via synapses between efferent nerve fibers and muscle fibers. |
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| The amount of extra oxygen required by muscle tissue during recovery from vigorous exercise. |
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| Extension at knee, flexion at hip. |
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| Flexion, adduction, and medial |
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| Depresses ribs, flexes vertebral column, and compresses abdomen. |
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| Is the cell membrane of a skeletal, cardiac, or smooth muscle cell. |
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| Flexion at knee, flexion and lateral rotation at hip. |
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| A form of striated muscle tissue which is under the control of the somatic nervous system; that is to say, it is voluntarily controlled. |
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| Is an involuntary non-striated muscle. |
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| Extension (plantar flexion) at ankle. |
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| A ringlike muscle that normally maintains constriction of a body passage or orifice and that relaxes as required by normal physiological functioning. |
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| 2 bellied, Together they flex the neck; alone one side bends head toward shoulder and turns to face opposite side. |
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| Flexion (dorsiflexion)at ankle; inversion of foot. |
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| Depends on active region and state of other muscles; may (1) elevate, retract, depress, or rotate scapula upward, (2) elevate clavicle, or (3) extend neck. |
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| Extension at elbow and extension and adduction at the shoulder. |
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| Are muscles that you have the ability to consiously control. |
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