Ch 12: Skeletal Muscles Flashcards
(121 cards)
The bone that moves is attached at the muscle _________?
Insertion
What happens when a muscle contracts?
It shortens
The muscle is attached to a bone that does not move at the muscle _______?
Origin
________ muscles decrease the angle between two bones at a joint.
Flexor
________ muscles increase the angle between two bones at a joint.
Extensor
The prime mover of my skeletal movement is called the?
Agonist
Flexors and extensors that work together are?
Antagonists
Skeletal muscles are surrounded by a fibrous _____.
Epimysium
Each fascicle of a muscle is surrounded by the?
Perimysium
Connective tissues called perimysium subdivides the muscle into _______.
Fascicles
Each fascicle is subdivided into muscle fibers surrounded by ______.
Endomysium
Muscle fibers have a plasma membrane called what?
Sarcolemma
________ are multinucleated and striated.
Muscle fibers
The light band of a skeletal muscle is known as the?
I band
The dark band of a skeletal muscle is known as the
A band
The site where a motor neuron stimulates a muscle fiber is known as?
Neuromuscular junction
The area of the muscle fiber sarcolemma where a motor neuron stimulates it is?
Motor end plate
Somatic motor neurons release the neurotransmitter _______ at the neuromuscular junction.
Acetylcholine
Each somatic motor neuron with all the muscle fibers it innervates is a?
Motor unit
Subunits of skeletal muscle cells that are composed of sarcomeres are called?
Myofibrils
The thick filament is also called the?
A band
____ contain only thin filaments.
I bands
_____ are the center of the A band with no thin filament overlap.
H bands
______ are found in the center of each I band
Z lines