HBS Unit 4 Review

A contractile protein that is part of the thin filaments in muscle fibers

• Actin

• ATP

• Myosin

• Acetylcholine

Nerve cells that carry impulses towards the central nervous system

• Afferent neurons
• Effector neuron
• Axial neuron
• Dendrites

Striated muscle fibers (cells) that form the wall of the heart; stimulated by the intrinsic conduction system and autonomic motor neurons

• Cardiac muscle
• Skeletal muscle
• Intercostal muscle
• Smooth muscle

A condition caused by compression of the median nerve and characterized especially by weakness, pain, and disturbances of sensation in the hand and fingers

• Nerve compression syndrome

• Carpal tunnel syndrome

• Guyons canal syndrome

• Wartenburgs syndrome

The delicate connective tissue surrounding the individual muscular fibers within the smallest bundles

• Fascicle

• Perimysium

• Endomysium

• Epimysium

The external connective-tissue sheath of a muscle

• Endomysium
• Perimysium
• Epimysium
• Exomysium

The attachment of a muscle tendon to a moveable bone or the end opposite the origin

• Origin
• Attachment Point
• Deletion
• Insertion

An organ composed of one of the three types of tissue (skeletal, cardiac, and smooth), specialized for contraction to produce voluntary and involuntary movements of parts of the body

• Adipose
• Skeletal
• Integumentary
• Muscle

Temporary rigidity of muscles occurring after death

• Rigor mordis
• Rigor mortis
• Rigger mortis
• Riger mordus

Any of the repeating structural units of striated muscle fibrils

• Sarcomere
• A band
• I band
• Myosin