Chapter 7 Vocabulary
Across
- 5. assists the primary mover for a specific action at a joint.
- 7. synaptic connection between a motor neuron and skeletal muscle.
- 10. flexible end of the muscle, usually attached to a bone
- 11. Term for without oxygen
- 12. attachment site that doesn’t move during contraction
- 13. no relaxation period between muscle contraction
- 15. Protein located primarily in the striated muscles of vertebrates.
- 16. the muscle that provides the primary force driving the action
- 17. network of interconnecting rings, each surrounds a myofibril
- 18. first step in the breakdown of glucose to extract energy
- 19. Organized structures in muscle cells that have proteins actin and myosin.
Down
- 1. made of contractile proteins that are responsible for skeletal muscle contraction
- 2. chemical your body produces when cells break down carbohydrates for energy.
- 3. contraction in which there is no chance in length of the muscle
- 4. fibrous connective tissue that attaches muscle to bone
- 6. specialized form of endoplasmic reticulum of muscle cells
- 8. attachment of myosin with acting within the muscle cell
- 9. maintains constant tension in the muscle as the length changes.
- 14. single motor neuron and the multiple muscle fibers it controls.