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