A&P TEST Flashcards
Voluntary, striated
Skeletal muscle tissue
Striated, involuntary
Cardiac muscle tissue
Nonstriated, involuntary
Smooth muscle tissue
immovable joints
synarthrosis
slightly movable joints
amphiarthrosis
freely movable joints
diarthrosis
plasma membrane of a myofiber
sacrolemma
connective tissue that surrounds individual myofibers
endomysium
houses DNA that codes for protein filaments
nucleus of muscle cell
myosin & actin
think and thin filaments
transmission of action potential travels
myelinated axon
releases the neurotransmitter acetylcholine
synaptic knob
use the energy of ATP to change shape, producing the power stroke of contraction
Myosin (thick filiments)
binding sites for myosin
Actin (thin filimemts) `
dense region that separates one sarcomere from another
z-disk