Muscular System Crossword Puzzle

A connective tissue that surrounds the entire skeletal muscle (outside)
A short band of tough, flexible, fibrous connective tissue that connects two bones or cartilages or holds together a joint.
It is an inflammation of a tendon.
A compound that occurs throughout the nervous system, in which it functions as a neurotransmitter.
It is found in a hollow structures of the body like the intestines, blood vessels, and urinary bladder.
This muscle of facial expression raises your eyebrows and wrinkles the skin of your forehead.
A large triangular muscle covering the shoulder joint and serving to abduct, flex, extend and rotate the arm.
It is a long, fibrous protein that winds around the actin polymer, blocking all the myosin-binding sites.
A chemical substance that is released at the end of a nerve fiber by the arrival of a nerve impulse and, by diffusing across the synapse or junction, causes the transfer of the impulse to another nerve fiber, a muscle fiber, or some other structure.
A bundle of skeletal muscle cells that group together to form skeletal muscles.
The cytoplasm of striated muscle cells.
A protein that forms (together with myosin) the contractile filaments of muscle cells, and is also involved in motion in other types of cells.
A connective tissue that surrounds groups of 10-100 individual muscle fibers separating them into bundles called fascicles.
A connective tissue that surrounds each muscle fiber.
Thick filament protein with a head and elongated tail, the heads form cross bridges with the thin filaments during muscle contraction.
What type of muscle has intercalated discs?
What is the light area of the sarcomere?
What type of muscle is voluntary?
It is the center part of the sarcomere that gets smaller when a muscle contracts and appears when the muscle relaxes.
What is the ability of a muscle to recoil after being stretched?