Muscle Crossword
Across
- 3. muscle attached to bones via tendons
- 5. contractile unit of a muscle fiber, zdisc zdisc
- 11. one contraction immediately followed by another with no rest period
- 12. muscles work against gravity to maintain ______
- 13. neurotransmitter for skeletal muscle
- 16. the slower reaction that requires continuous oxygen supply
- 20. there is no such thing as _____ muscle contraction
- 22. skeletal muscles are stimulated by a _______
- 25. all effects added together
- 27. ability to receive and respond to a stimulus
- 30. pyruvic acid is converted into ______, which makes muscles sore
- 31. muscle contraction is "_________" no such thing as partial contraction
- 32. ______leads to stronger, more flexible muscles
- 33. a muscle is unable to contract even if it is being stimulated
Down
- 1. there are _____ different ways to regenerat ATP
- 2. a type of contraction where tension in the muscles increases
- 4. the state of continuous partial contraction of muscles
- 6. ability to shorten when an adequate stimulus is received
- 7. ability to recoil and resume resting length after stretching
- 8. graded responses are generated by changing ______ of cells stimulated
- 9. increase in muscle size
- 10. acetylcholine diffuses across the ______
- 14. different degrees of skeletal muscle shortening
- 15. connective tissue layer around epimysium
- 16. another anme for "electrical current"
- 17. a vital enzyme in the contraction process
- 18. ability of muscle cells to be stretched
- 19. though to cause muscle fatigue
- 21. one neuron and all the muscle cells it stimulates
- 23. thick filaments
- 24. a single brief contraction
- 26. thin filaments
- 28. muscle cell membrane
- 29. muscle only found in the heart
- 31. bonds of ______ are broken to release energy