Section: 1 Flashcards
What are characteristics of muscles?
Conductivity
Elasticity
Irritability
Contracility
What’s the ability to transmit impulses?
Conductivity
What’s the ability to respond to a stimulus?
Irritability
The ability to return to original form after being stretched
Elasticity
The ability of a muscle to contract (a muscle’s specialty)
Contracility
What are microscopic structures?
Muscle fiber
Sarcolemma
Sarcoplasm
Sarcosomes
What’s another name for a muscle cell?
Muscle fiber
What’s the cytoplasm of a muscle fiber?
Sarcoplasm
What’s the cell membrane of a muscle fiber?
Sarcolemma
What’s the Mitochondria of a muscle fiber?
Sarcosomes
What’s conductivity?
Ability to transmit impulses
What’s Contracility?
ability of a muscle to contract (a muscles specialty)
What’s irritability?
Ability to respond to a stimulus
What’s elasticity?
Ability to return to original form after being stretched
What’s is the Sarcoplasm?
Cytoplasm of a muscle fiber