Muscles Crossword Puzzle!

This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Anatomy has 29 clues. Answers range from 4 to 15 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.

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Look at Image #1, what are the structures in red?
In skeletal muscle, which muscle protein blocks the cross-bridge binding site on actin?
The muscle protein involved in muscle contraction that pairs with Tropomyosin in the thin filaments, within the skeletal muscles.
The state of the skeletal muscle shown in Image #2
The ion that binds to troponin to contract a muscle, by pulling tropomyosin away from the cross-bridge binding site.
Another name for long fibered muscles or paralleled muscles.
The term/name used to describe a straight muscle.
The largest gluteal muscle.
The abbreviation for the area of muscles that is proportional to muscle force.
The state of the skeletal muscle shown in Image #3
Muscle growth from heavy training is muscle...
The type of skeletal muscle fiber that is small in diameter and fatigue resistant.
Image #4 shows a muscle contracting but not shortening, this is an example of what type of contraction
Name the five individual units that make up the motor neuron shown in Image #5.
Action potentials in the motor neuron cause the release of this chemical
The point where a muscle connects to but never moves.
During what phase of muscle movement is indicated in Image #6
The type of contraction in Image #7
Lack of muscle activity resulting in decrease in muscle mass.
With long term inactivity, this replaces muscle fibers.
The muscle shown in Image #8
Another word commonly used for the term “externus”.
Name the large, easily fatigued muscle fibers shown in the photo below.
Muscle architecture found in the superficial, lateral surface of the shoulder, in Image #9
Muscle found under the scapula that helps form the rotator cuff in Image #10, shown in the arrow below
The muscle responsible for abducting the thigh at the hip, inserted at the anterior surface of the greater trochanter, shown in Image #11
Fiber length is determined by the number of ____________ in a series, in Image #12
As part of the ____ system, muscle acts to produce force.
A twisting force that tends to cause rotation.

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