The Cross

5. heart’s ability to control its own contractions
7. anaerobic breakdown of glucose to ATP
11. muscle that depresses the hyoid bone and elevates the larynx’s thyroid cartilage
14. striated muscle found in the heart
16. low levels of muscle contraction that occur when a muscle is not producing movement
17. muscle that depresses the hyoid bone
19. nonstriated, mononucleated muscle in the skin that is associated with hair follicles

1. period after twitch contraction when tension decreases
2. stem cell that regenerates smooth muscle cells
3. ability to undergo neural stimulation
4. thin strands of actin and its troponin-tropomyosin complex projecting from the Z-discs toward the center of the sarcomere
6. part of the sarcolemma that connects cardiac tissue, and contains gap junctions and desmosomes
8. longitudinally, repeating functional unit of skeletal muscle, with all of the contractile and associated proteins involved in
9. posterior neck muscles
10. ability to shorten (contract) forcibly
12. force generated by the contraction of the muscle
13. a protein that makes up most of the thin myofilaments
15. loss of structural proteins from muscle fibers
17. striated, multinucleated muscle that requires signaling from the nervous system to trigger contraction
18. replacement of muscle fibers by scar tissue