Skeletal Muscle Strutre

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Each individual skeletal muscle is held in place by a covering of what?

Fasia
_____ attach the bone

Tendons
The immediate layer of tissue that covers the muscle is ?

Epimysium
_______ is the tissue that seperates the muscle tissue into components

Perimysium
These components contain bundles of skeletal muscle fiber called what ?

Fasicles
Each muscle fiber within a fascicle is surrounded by a layer called what?

Endomysium
A skeletal muscle fiber is a _____ cell of a muscle

single
Each cell is surrounded by a _______ ?

Sacolemma (cell membrane)
Under each sacrolemma is the _______ ?

Sarcoplasm (cytoplasm)
Each sacroplasm contains numerous ______ myofibers

threadlike
_______ play fundamental role in contraction

Myofibers
There are 2 types of what ?

Filaments
1st filament?

Myosin
2nd filament?

Actin
Myosin= ?
Actin= ?
- Thick
- Thin
The thick and thin arrangments produce the _____ and _____ striations

light; dark