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What is CONTRACTILITY?
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The property of skeletal muscle that allows us to produce movement
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What are muscles role in MOVEMENT?
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Mobility, respiration, and digestion
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What are muscles role in STABILITY?
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Maintain posture, and hold bones in place
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What are the muscles role in COMMUNICATION?
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Speech, facial expressions, writing
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What are muscles role in CONTROL OF BODY OPENINGS AND PASSAGES?
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Sphincter muscles around eyelids, pupils, and mouth control admission of light, food, and drink
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What are the muscles role in HEAT PRODUCTION?
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Produce 85% of our bodies heat
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What are muscle fibers?
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The basic structural unit of a muscle, amount determines size of muscle.
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What are Fasciculi?
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Bundles of muscle fibers
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What do groups of fasciculi form?
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The muscle
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What holds the muscle fibers and fasciculi together?
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Connective Tissue
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What is the functions of connective tissue in muscles?
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Connect muscles to other structures, Provide route for nerves and blood vessels to reach muscle fibers, provide framework for contraction to be transfered to bone.
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What is the endomysium?
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Thin sheath INSIDE MUSCLE surround each muscle fiber and binds to adjacent fibers.
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What is the Perimysium?
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A dense layer AROUND each fasciculi that divides muscle into compartments.
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What is the Epimysium?
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Dense irregular connective tissue ON THE MUSCLE that separates from surrounding tissues and will continue as the tendon.
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What is the anatomy of a muscle fiber?
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Extremely long and multinucleated, contains several myofibrils, each fiber contains specialized membrane called a sarcolemma.
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