Proprioceptive organ within the belly of skeletal muscles that is made up of 2–10 intrafusal fibers plus several types of sensory nerves encased in a spindle-shaped connective tissue capsule and embedded between extrafusal fibers; muscle

spindles register and respond to changes in muscle length and the speed of these changes.


Muscle spindle

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1. The type of muscle found in the forearm is:

a. voluntary muscle. b. involuntary muscle. c. integumentary muscle. d. contractor muscle.

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Placement of a splint on the third left finger would be reported with code _____

a. 2W3AX1Z b. 2W3KX1Z c. 2W3FX1Z d. 2W3JXYZ

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The sport ethic becomes a source of dangerous deviance in sports when

A. referees do not take the sport ethic seriously when they enforce rules. B. athletes reject the norms of the sport ethic and make up their own rules. C. people in sports don't set boundaries to limit overconformity to the ethic. D. athletes raise too many questions about its meaning.

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A cause and effect diagram identifies major categories of factors that influence an effect and the subfactors within each of those categories.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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