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anatomy
Question | Answer |
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contractility | the ability of skeletal muscle to shorten with force |
excitability | the capacity of skeletal muscle to respond to a stimulus |
extensibility | the ability to be stretched |
elasticity | |
epimysium | surrounds each skeletal muscle |
fascia | a connective tissue outside the epimysium |
perimysium | surrounds the fasciculi |
fibers | the fasciculi of a lot of these |
endomysium | surrounds each fiber |
myofibrils | a thread like structure that extends from one end of the fiber to the other |
actin myofilament | |
myosin myofilaments | thick, resemble bundles of minute golf clubs |
sarcomeres | actin and myosin myofilaments form highly ordered units |