10340713136 | myoblasts | stem cells that fuse to form each muscle fiber | 0 | |
10340713137 | prime mover (agonist) | produces most of force | 1 | |
10340713138 | isometric contraction | Muscle contracts but there is no movement, muscle stays the same length | 2 | |
10340713139 | threshold | voltage producing an action potential = twitch ex - muscle twitch in frog | 3 | |
10340713140 | twitch | quick cycle of contraction and relaxation | 4 | |
10340713141 | Innervation | Nerve stimulation of a muscle | 5 | |
10340713142 | Antagonist | Opposes the prime mover | 6 | |
10340713143 | Fixator | prevents movement of bone | 7 | |
10340713144 | skeletal muscle innervation | muscle revived info from brain | 8 | |
10340713145 | circular muscle | muscle that forms a ring around a body opening ex eyes | 9 | |
10340713146 | motor unit | several neuromuscular junctions | 10 | |
10340713147 | Cations | + charge | 11 | |
10340713148 | Anions | - charge | 12 | |
10340713149 | Depolarization | inside the cell briefly becomes positive | 13 | |
10340713150 | depolarization + repolarization | action potentional | 14 | |
10340713151 | ecf | outside | 15 | |
10340713152 | icf | inside | 16 | |
10340713153 | F-actin | string of necklace | 17 | |
10340713154 | G-actin | beads, active sites same shape of thick | 18 | |
10340713155 | Tropomyosin | covers g-actin sites speggiti | 19 | |
10340713156 | troponin | active sites for calcium, triangles | 20 | |
10340713157 | umbilical hernia | viscera protrude through the navel, athletic injuries | 21 | |
10340713158 | plantar fasciitis | not muscle related heel pain | 22 | |
10340713159 | tennis elbow | muscle tendons of forearm attach to bony area hurt | 23 | |
10340713160 | fascia | separates muscles helps to protect | 24 | |
10340713161 | superficial fascia | adipose between skin and muscles | 25 | |
10340713162 | deep fascia | found between adjacent muscles | 26 | |
10340713163 | extrinsic | muscle found outside the region ex forearm muscles to move the fingers | 27 | |
10340713164 | Types of muscle | Skeletal, cardiac, smooth | 28 | |
10340713165 | characteristics of muscles | movement of body parts and organs maintain posture and prevent movement communication control openings of passage ways heat protection | 29 | |
10340713166 | Striations | Stripes | 30 | |
10340713167 | Synergist | Muscle that assists a prime mover | 31 | |
10340713168 | direct attachment to bones | muscle that lines the ribs no tendons | 32 | |
10340713169 | rigor mortis | no atp to cause muscle relaxation | 33 | |
10340713170 | chewing | temporalis masster medial and lateral | 34 | |
10340713171 | swallowing | digastric mylohyoid genihyoid stylohiod thyrohyiod | 35 | |
10340713172 | external oblique | go in from sides | 36 | |
10340713173 | internal oblique | from middle facing external oblique | 37 | |
10340713174 | transverse | across | 38 | |
10340713175 | rectus abdominis | six pack | 39 | |
10340713176 | isotonic muscle contraction concentric | tension when shortening | 40 | |
10340713177 | isotonic muscle contraction eccentric | tension when lengthing | 41 | |
10340713178 | origin | attachment to stationary end of muscles | 42 | |
10340713179 | parallel muscles | six pack | 43 | |
10340713180 | fusiform muscles | thick in the middle and tapered at each end | 44 | |
10340713181 | Insertion | attachment to movable bone | 45 | |
10340713182 | Tendons | indirect attachment to bone | 46 | |
10340713183 | dystonia | muscle full on contracts at unwanted times brain thing | 47 | |
10340713184 | intrinsic | muscle contained within a region muscle in hand | 48 | |
10340713185 | skeletal muscle | voluntary striated muscle that is usually attached to one or more bones | 49 | |
10340713123 | belly | thicker middle region of muscles | 50 | |
10340713124 | inguinal hernia | most common, males, viscera enters inguinal canal or scrotum | 51 | |
10340713125 | pennate muscles | fascicles insert obliquely on a tendon | 52 | |
10340713126 | convergent muscle | broad at origin and tapering to a narrower insertion | 53 | |
10340713127 | satellite cells | unspecialized myoblasts | 54 | |
10340713128 | fibrosis | replacement of damaged cells with scar tissue | 55 | |
10340713129 | synaptic cleft | tiny gap between nerve and muscle cells | 56 | |
10340713130 | basal lamina | thin layer of collagen and glycoprotein over all of muscle fiber | 57 | |
10340713131 | end plate potential | several channels open and close at the same time | 58 | |
10340966205 | anaerobic | generating energy without energy short and intense | 59 | |
10340966206 | aerobic | generating energy with oxygen | 60 | |
10340966207 | Phosphagen | short and intense, takes advantage of oxygen in muscles | 61 | |
10340966208 | glycogen | can provide energy for 40 seconds | 62 | |
10340966209 | latic acid | causes pain when we burn glycogen | 63 | |
10340966210 | fatigue | passed limits KA pumps start to fail latic acid builds cell becomes negatively charged hyperpolarizes cell | 64 | |
10340966211 | slow twitch | resistant to fatigue, less blood | 65 | |
10340966212 | fast twitch | burst of activity abundant amount of blood | 66 | |
10340966213 | cardiac muscle | reaches fatigue very slowly, slow twitch, lots of mitochondria | 67 | |
10340966214 | angina pectoris | chest pain | 68 | |
10340966215 | heart attack | forcing heart to use anaerobic without oxygen to develop ATP -usually blockage | 69 | |
10340966216 | smooth muscle | involuntary muscle found in internal organs no sitrations no sarcomeres | 70 |
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