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14 Cards in this Set
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3 components of muscle
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skeletal, cardiac, smooth muscle
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skeletal muscle
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attach to bones.single long, cylindrical, multinucleast with striations. voluntary . striated
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cardiac muscle
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walls of heart, branching chains of cells,uninucleate, striations, involuntary
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smooth muscle
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walls of hollow organs. single, fusiform, uninucleate, no striations. involuntary
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joints
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immovable/ synarthroses, slightly movable/amphiarthroses,
freely movable/ diarthrosis |
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synarthoses
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skull sutures. immovable
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amphiathroses
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slightly moveable. between tibia and filula. between pubic bones of pelvis
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diathrosis
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freely moveable. elbow, ankle, ribs, wrist, shoulder, hip
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what muscles control knee function?
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the quadriceps (thigh) and hamstrings
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sarcomere
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smallest contractile unit of muscle. extends from one z disc to the next
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tetany
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uncontrollable muscle spasms related to too low blood calcuim levels
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muscle tone
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state of continuous partial contraction.
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which muscle has involuntary regulation of contraction?
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cardiac
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what type of impulse conduction is fastest in neurons?
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myelinated
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