Muscular System Crossword
Across
- 4. muscle that abducts the thumb
- 5. muscle with an anterior fascicle that adducts, medially rotates and flexesthe thigh, and a posterior fasicle that assists in thigh extension
- 9. production of ATP in the presence of oxygen
- 12. muscle that adducts and medially rotates the thigh
- 14. move away from midline in the sagittal plane
- 15. heart's ability to control its own contractions
- 16. protein that makes up most of the thin myofilaments in a sarcomere muscle fiber
Down
- 1. muscle that adducts, medially rotates, and flexes the thigh
- 2. moves the bone towards the midline
- 3. muscle that abducts the little finger
- 6. broad, tendon-like sheet of connective tissue that attatches a skeletal muscle to another skeletal muscle or to a bone
- 7. enzyme that hydrolyzes ATP to ADP
- 8. formation of blood capillary networks
- 10. loss of structural proteins from muscle fibers
- 11. moves the bone away from the midline
- 13. neurotransmitter that binds at a motor end-plate to trigger depolarization
- 15. change in voltage of a cell membrane in response to a stimulus that results in transmission of an electrical signal