Chapter 3: Muscular System Muscle Tissue Properties

automaticity

the ability for a muscle to contract without the involvement or a nerve supple; automaticity is a property of a visceral, smooth, and cardiac muscle

contractility

the ability of a skeletal muscle to contract

elasticity

the ability of muscle fibers to resume their resting length when a stretching force is removed

excitability

ability of a skeletal muscle to receive and respond to a nerve impulse by contracting

extensibility

ability of a skeletal muscle to be stretched and evident in hamstring and calf muscles

origin

attachment site that doesn not more when muscles contract

insertion

attachment sire that moves during muscular contraction