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21 Cards in this Set
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Skeletal muscle tissue is striated, voluntary, and multinucleated
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True
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Cardiac muscle tissue striated, involuntary, and usually has a single nucleus
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True
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Smooth muscle tissue is nonstriated, involuntary, and has a single nucleus
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True
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When cardiac muscle contracts rhythmically with out outside stimulation
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autorhythimicty
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What are the functions of skeletal muscle
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motion walking circulation posture regulation of organ volume thermogenesis
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The ability of a myofiber to shorten
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Contractibility
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The ability of the myofiber to return to its normal shape and length
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elasticity
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The ability of a myofiber to receive and respond to a stimulus
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excitability
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The ability of a myofiber conduct an action potential along its plasma membrane
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conductivity
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The ability of a myofiber to extend or stretch
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extensibility
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This fibrous connective tissue wraps around the entire muscle
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epimesium
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The connective tissue covering of individual muscle fibers.
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endimesium
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The connective tissue covering that wraps around a group of muscle fibers to form fasciculi.
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perimyisum
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A cord of dense regular connective tissue that connects the muscle to the periosteum or to another muscle.
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Tendon
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A broad flat sheet of dense regular connective tissue that connects the muscle to the periosteum or to another muscle
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Aponeurosa
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A motor nerve and all the skeletal muscle fibers it stimulates
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motor unit
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The synapse between a motor neuron and a skeletal muscle cell
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Neuromuscular Junction
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The region where a neuron communicates with another neuron or a target cell
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synapse
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The small space that separates the neurons or neuron and target cell.
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motor end plate
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The region of the sarcolemma adjacent to the telodendria of a motor neuron
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Motor endplate
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The neurotransmitter released at the neuromuscular Junction
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Acetylcholine
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