Chapter 2: Muscular System

Question 1

Muscular system

Answer 1

The full collection of all of the muscles in the human body.

Question 2

Epimysium

Answer 2

This is the layer of muscular connective tissue on the outside.

Question 3

Perimysium

Answer 3

This is the muscular connective tissue in the middle that encompasses the muscle fascicle

Question 4

Endomysium

Answer 4

The deepest layer of the muscular connective tissue that covers muscle fibers.

Question 5

Tendons

Answer 5

Connect skeletal muscles to the bone with a band of white, inelastic, dense and tough band of tissue.

Question 6

Sarcomere

Answer 6

This is the functional unit of a muscle that produces contractions. It is comprised of actin and myosin. This is the repeating section of a muscle

Question 7

Neural Activation

Answer 7

his is the process of nervous system activation of a muscle fiber by the means of the neuromuscular junction

Question 8

Motor unit

Answer 8

The motor neuron as well as all of the muscle fiber that it innervates.

Question 9

Neurotransmitters

Answer 9

These are small chemical messengers that are able to cross the neuromuscular synapse (junction) in order to transmit these and electrical impulses from the nerve to the muscle.