Chapter 2 - Basic Exercise Science

Question 0

Mechanoreceptors

Answer 0

Sensory receptors responsible for sensing distortion in body tissues

Question 1

Proprioception

Answer 1

The cumulative sensory input to the central nervous system from all mechanoreceptors that sense body position and limb movement.

Question 2

Muscle Spindles

Answer 2

Receptors sensitive to change in length of the muscle and the rate of that change.

Question 3

Golgi tendon organs

Answer 3

Receptors sensitive to change in tension of the muscle and the rate of that change.

Question 4

Muscular System

Answer 4

Series of muscles that moves the skeleton.

Question 5

Epimysium

Answer 5

A layer of connective tissue that surrounds fascicles.

Question 6

Perimysium

Answer 6

the connective tissue that surrounds fascicles.

Question 7

Endomysium

Answer 7

The deepest layer of connective tissue that surrounds individual muscle fibers.

Question 8

Excitation-Contraction Coupling is the process of …

Answer 8

neural stimulation creating a muscle contraction.

Step 1: ACh released, binding to receptors