2 Vocab - Muscular System

Question 0

Epimysium

Answer 0

Layer of connective tissue that is underneath the fascia and surrounds the muscle

Question 1

Muscular system

Answer 1

Series of muscles that moves the skeleton

Question 2

Permysium

Answer 2

Connective tissues that surrounds fascicles

Question 3

Endomysium

Answer 3

Deepest layer of connective tissue that surrounds individual muscle fibers

Question 4

Tendons

Answer 4

Connective tissues that attach muscle to bone and provide an anchor for muscles to produce force

Question 5

Sarcomere

Answer 5

Functional unit of muscle that produces muscular contraction and consists if repeating sections of actin and myosin

Question 6

Neural activation

Answer 6

Contraction of a muscle generated by neural stimulation

Question 7

Motor unit

Answer 7

Motor neuron and all of the muscle fibers it innervates

Question 8

Neurotransmitters

Answer 8

Chemical messengers that cross the neuromuscular junction (synapse) to transmit electrical impulses from the nerve to the muscle