Hint | Answer |
A functional unit, a single motor neuron and all the muscle fibers it supplies? | |
Where are the fibers of a single motor unit distributed? | |
Stimulation of a single motor neuron does what to the entire muscle? | |
How strong a contraction? | |
Response of a muscle to a single supra-threshold stimulus? | |
What are the three phase of muscle twitch, in order? | |
When does the latent phase occur? | |
Is there any contractile activity?? | |
What kind of coupling occurs?? | |
How long does the latent phase last?? | |
What events does the contraction phase span? | |
If pull is greater than load, what happens?? | |
How long does the contraction phase last?? | |
What happens during the relaxation phase? | |
What happens to muscle tension? | |
Are temporal characteristics the same among muscles?? | |
What is the term for the varation in degree of muscle contraction? | |
Gradation results from two things. What are they?? | |
There are two responses to frequency of stimulation? | |
What is another name for Temporal summation? | |
What increases the strength of contraction?? | |
What happens if stimulation is delivered prior to relaxtion? | |
In tetanus, there are high enough frequencies for this to occur to contractions? | |
The response to increasing stimulus intensity is this? | |
Motor unit summation is the primary mechanism for doing what to contraction? | |
Multiple motor unit summation is called? | |
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