Muscular system diseases

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wasting away of muscle tissue

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atrophy

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Muscle fatigue is primarily due to a build-up of ______ during anaerobic respiration.

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lactic acid

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Occurs because there is no ATP to remove myosin cross bridges after death.

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rigor mortis

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Inherited muscle-destroying diseases characterized by degeneration of individual muscle fibers (usually voluntary)

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Muscular dystrophy

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Autoimmune disease that attacks acetylcholine receptors leading to muscle weakness

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Myasthenia gravis

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6th and 7th cranial nerve don’t develop; palsy on one (or both) side of face

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Moebius disease

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sudden, involuntary contraction of single muscle in large group

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spasm

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Muscles contract but have decreasing power to relax (become weak and waste away); symptoms more severe with each generation.

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myotonic dystrophy

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A ______ can be used to measure skeletal muscle contraction. (i.e. in the "chewing lab")

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myogram

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Sarin gas...

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inhibits acetylcholinesterase.