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| Movement, Maintenance of posture, Joint Stabilization, and Heat Generation |
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| Distinguishing features of Muscle Tissue |
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| Contractibility, Excitability, Extensibility, and Elasticity |
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| a fibrous membrane that wraps around muscles, muscle groups, large vessels, and nerves |
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| Also called the hypodermis - stores fat and anchors the skin to underlying structures like muscle |
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| Fibrous sheet connecting a muscle to the body part it moves |
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| An "overcoat" of dense, irregular connective tissue surrounding the whole skeletal muscle |
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| Surrounds Fascicles (bundles of muscle fibers) |
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| a fine sheath of loose connective tissue within a fascicle |
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| connective tissue structure that joints skeletal muscles to bones |
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| the attachment of the muscle of the less movable bone |
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| attachment on the move movable bone |
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| The muscle that has the major responsibility for producing a specific movement |
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| Muscles that oppose or reverse a particular movement act |
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| helps the prime movers, either by adding extra force, or by reducing overaction |
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| a synergist that holds a bone firmly in place so that the prime move has a stable place to move a body part |
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| skeletal muscle tissue has |
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| rodlike bundle of contractile myofilaments in the cytoplasm of a skeletal muscle cell; made of repeating segments called sarcomeres |
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| contractile filaments in muscle tissue - made up of actin (thin) and myosin (thick) filaments |
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| long row of repeating muscle segments |
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| Springlike molecule (in sarcomeres)that resists overstretching |
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| Boundaries at the two ends of sarcomeres |
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| Sliding filament mechanism |
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| process of concentric contraction of skeletal muscle |
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| surrounds myofibrils like a loosely crocheted sweater |
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| Calcium triggers muscle contraction |
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| Deep invaginations of the sarcolemma |
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| point at which the nerve ending and fiber meet |
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| nerve cells that innervate muscle fibers |
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| enlargements at the end of the axonal process that stores chemical messenger molecules and neruotransmitters |
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| separation of the axon terminals from the sarcolemma of the muscle fiber |
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| neurotransmitter/acetocholine |
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| induces an impulse that initiates fiber contraction |
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| a motor neuron and all the muscle fibers it innervates |
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