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| Cover's the body's more that 430 skeletal muscles. It is a layer of connective tissue that ensheaths the entire muscle. |
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| A tough band of fibrous connective tissue that usually connects muscle to bone. |
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| A specialized connective tissue covering all bones. |
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| Proximal (toward the center of the body) attachment. |
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| Distal (away from the center of the body) attachment. |
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| Muscle cells, that are long (sometimes running the entire length of a muscle). |
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| Muscle fibers grouped in bundles. [image] |
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| A sheath of connective tissue that groups muscle fibers into bundles. |
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| Meaning within the muscle, is a layer of connective tissue that ensheaths a muscle. |
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| The cell membrane of a muscle cell. |
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| The synapse or junction of the axon terminal of a motor neuron with the motor end plate. |
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| A motor neuron and all of the muscle fibers it innervates. |
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The cytoplasm of the muscle fiber.
It contains contracile components which sonsist of protein filaments and other proteins, stored glycogen and fat particles, enzymes and specialized organelles such as the mitochondria and the sarcoplasmic reticulum. |
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The basic unit of a muscle, which contain the apparatus that contracts the muscle cell. (Actin and Myosin)
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| Structure that contains actin and myosin. |
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| Corresponds with the area in two adjacent sarcomeres that contain only actin filaments. |
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| Z disc to Z disc. Storage place for calcium ions |
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| Regulates calcium and controls muscular contraction. |
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| An electrical nerve impulse |
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| States that the actin filaments ate each end of the sarcomere slide inward on myosin filaments, pulling the z-lines toward the center of the sarcomere and thus shortening the muscle fiber. |
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| A protein situated at regular intervals along the actin filament that has a high affinity for calcium ions. |
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| Runs along the length of the actin filament in the grove of the double helix. |
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| When the tension developed in the cross-bridges is less than the external resistance. |
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When high tension is developed in a msucle even before movement occurs when lifting weights becaue the waight must be supported isometricaly.
Maximal force does notoccur early in the range of motion |
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| Length-tension relationship |
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| Peak force produciton is usually seen at resting length or slightly greater than resting length, this is known as... |
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| Delayed onset of muscle sorness |
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| Reduced muscle size and strength |
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| The increase in force production |
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| Neurotramsmitter which causes the excitation of the sarcolemma. |
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| There is no such thing as a motor neuron stimulus that causes only some of the fibers to contract. |
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| The breif contraction that results from an action potential traveling down a motor neuron activating the muscle fibers within the motor unit. |
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| When muscle twitches fuse. |
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| Slow twitch muscle fibers, fatigue resistant, high capacity for aerobic energy |
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| Fast twitch muscle fibers, rapid force development |
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| Fast twitch muscle fibers |
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| Sensory receptors with in the belly of a muscle which primarily detect changes in the length of the muscle. (an injur prevention mechanism) |
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| Reduce potential for injury - protective function. Sensative to muscles tension in the muslce tendon complex. Operates like a strain gauges - senses change in tension. |
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Breakdown of larger molecules into smallar useable molecules.
Ex: Protein into amino acids
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| Building up. Small -> Large |
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| Total catabolic & anerobic metabolism |
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| Adenosine triphosphate. Contains nitrogen and a 5 carbon sugar. |
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| The intreinsic pacemaker--where rythmic electrical impulses are normally initated. |
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| Atrioventricular (AV) node |
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| Where th impulse is delayed slightly before passing into the ventricles. |
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| Atriventricular (AV) Bundle |
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| Conducts the impulse to the ventriles. |
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| Conduct impulses to all parts of the ventricles. |
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| An elestic blood vessel that rapidly transports blood away from the heart. |
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| Small blood vessels that extend from the arteries and lead to the capillaries. |
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| Blood vessels that transport blood to the heart. |
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| The iron-protein molecule carried by the red blood cells. |
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| The major component of blood. |
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| First generation respiratory passage. |
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| The second generation pasages |
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| Where gases are exchanged in respiration. |
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| The pressure in the narrow space between the lung pleura and the chest wall |
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| Membrane enveloping the lungs and lining the chest wall. |
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| The pressure inside the alveoli when the glottis is open and no air is flowing into or out of the lungs. |
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