Chapter 6 Muscles
Across
- 2. specialized synergists
- 4. endurance
- 5. attached to movable bone and moves toward the origin
- 7. shortening
- 9. the specific neurotransmitter that stimulates skeletal muscle
- 10. when several muscles are contracting at the same time, the muscle that has major responsibility for causing a particular movement
- 12. state of partial contraction
- 15. a person not able to take in oxygen fast enough
- 17. a bundle of the fibers wrapped in endomysium
- 18. several sheathed muscle fibers are wrapped by a coarser fibrous membrane
- 20. tentanic contraction
Down
- 1. attached to the immovable or less movable bone
- 3. "without oxygen"
- 6. muscles that oppose or reverse a movement
- 8. done without will or conscious control
- 11. dominant tissue in the heart and in the walls of other hollow organs of the body
- 13. muscle that helps the prime mover
- 14. muscle the only muscle type subject to conscious control
- 16. many fascicles are bound together by an even tougher "overcoat" of connective tissue
- 19. one neuron and all the skeletal muscle cells it stimulates