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14 Cards in this Set
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Three types of muscle tissue...
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Smooth, Skeletal, and Cardiac
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SSC
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Thick myofilaments are formed from what protein?
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myosin
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myo
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Thin myofilaments are composed mostly of from what protein?
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actin
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act
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Basic functional or contractile unit of the skeletal muscle
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sarcomere
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sar
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ATP
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Adenodsine Triphosphate
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Other muscles that aid in the producing movement.
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synergist
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syn
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Main muscle responsible for producing a particular movement
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Primary Mover
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pri m
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A muscle that relaxs when a another in contracting is an...
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antangonist
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ant
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Muscle fibers that get stimulated repeated without adequate rest time result in what?
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Fatigue
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A specialized nerve that transmits an impulse to a muscle, causing contraction
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motor neuron
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m n
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the combination of a motor neuron with the muscle fiber
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motor unit
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m u
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A specialized type of muscle contraction that enables us to maintain body postion/posture
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tonic contraction
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to... c
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A single contraction of muscle fiber
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twitch contraction
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tw.... c
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sustained and steady musclar
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tetanic contractions
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te..... c
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