Chapter 6 Muscles

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Across
  1. 2. specialized synergists
  2. 4. endurance
  3. 5. attached to movable bone and moves toward the origin
  4. 7. shortening
  5. 9. the specific neurotransmitter that stimulates skeletal muscle
  6. 10. when several muscles are contracting at the same time, the muscle that has major responsibility for causing a particular movement
  7. 12. state of partial contraction
  8. 15. a person not able to take in oxygen fast enough
  9. 17. a bundle of the fibers wrapped in endomysium
  10. 18. several sheathed muscle fibers are wrapped by a coarser fibrous membrane
  11. 20. tentanic contraction
Down
  1. 1. attached to the immovable or less movable bone
  2. 3. "without oxygen"
  3. 6. muscles that oppose or reverse a movement
  4. 8. done without will or conscious control
  5. 11. dominant tissue in the heart and in the walls of other hollow organs of the body
  6. 13. muscle that helps the prime mover
  7. 14. muscle the only muscle type subject to conscious control
  8. 16. many fascicles are bound together by an even tougher "overcoat" of connective tissue
  9. 19. one neuron and all the skeletal muscle cells it stimulates