Section: 1 Flashcards

1
Q

What are characteristics of muscles?

A

Conductivity
Elasticity
Irritability
Contracility

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2
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What’s the ability to transmit impulses?

A

Conductivity

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3
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What’s the ability to respond to a stimulus?

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Irritability

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4
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The ability to return to original form after being stretched

A

Elasticity

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5
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The ability of a muscle to contract (a muscle’s specialty)

A

Contracility

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6
Q

What are microscopic structures?

A

Muscle fiber
Sarcolemma
Sarcoplasm
Sarcosomes

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7
Q

What’s another name for a muscle cell?

A

Muscle fiber

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8
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What’s the cytoplasm of a muscle fiber?

A

Sarcoplasm

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9
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What’s the cell membrane of a muscle fiber?

A

Sarcolemma

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10
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What’s the Mitochondria of a muscle fiber?

A

Sarcosomes

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11
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What’s conductivity?

A

Ability to transmit impulses

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12
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What’s Contracility?

A

ability of a muscle to contract (a muscles specialty)

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13
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What’s irritability?

A

Ability to respond to a stimulus

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14
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What’s elasticity?

A

Ability to return to original form after being stretched

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15
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What’s is the Sarcoplasm?

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Cytoplasm of a muscle fiber

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16
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What’s a muscle fiber?

A

A muscle cell

17
Q

What are Sarcosomes?

A

Mitochondria if a muscle fiber

18
Q

What’s the Sarcolemma?

A

Cell membrane of a muscle fiber

19
Q

Muscular System General Functions??

A
  1. Movement
  2. Posture
  3. Heat Production