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Myology
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The study of muscles
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What are the three kinds of muscles
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Skeletal, cardiac, and smooth
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What are the four characteristics?
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Excitablility (irritablity), Contractility, Extensibility, Elasticity
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What are the four functions of contracted muscle?
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movement, Maintenance of posture, stabilize joints, body heat
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epimysium
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the dense irregular connective tissue that wrap individual muscles.
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tendon
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extended epimysium that connects muscle to bone
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aponeurosis
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a sheet-like tendon that connects musle to bone or muscle
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Fascicles
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epimysium that penetrates the muscle to form visible bundles
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endomysium
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areolar connective tissue surrounding each muscle fiber (cell)
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Sarcolemma
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plasma membrane
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T-tubules (transverse tubles)
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there are thousands of these that open to the outside of the cell.
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