Muscle System Flashcards

1
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Skeletal

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Skeletal is voluntary, striated and is attached to our skeleton

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2
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Smooth

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Involuntary and not striated and mainly in your organs like intestines and stomach

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3
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Cardiac

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Branched, involuntary and striated only located in heart

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4
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Exicability

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Able to send electrical waves through the entire length of the body

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5
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Elasticity

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Having the ability to recoil back to its original length

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6
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Extensibility

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Able to stretch and bend slightly; extension and flexion

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7
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Contractility

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Allows muscles to pull on its attachment and shorten

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8
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Fascicle

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The muscle fibers that are arranged in bundles

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9
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Epimysium

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Outermost layer, surrounds entire muscle

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10
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Perimysium

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Separates and surrounds fascicles

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11
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Endomysium

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Surrounds each individual muscle fiber

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12
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Sarcolemma

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Muscle fiber membrane

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13
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Myofibril

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Individual parallel muscle fibers (made up of actin and myosin)

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14
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Sarcoplasm

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Inner material surrounding the myofibril (equivalent to the cell’s cytoplasm

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15
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Actin

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Thin filaments

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16
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Myosin

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Thick filaments